BM 040727 (P349851)

Lexical tablet excavated in Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik), dated to the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 040727

Period

Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

Provenience

Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical (malku-sharru 1)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

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tablet fragment
  transliterated after photo
obverse
  (broken)
reverse
  = top of tablet & col. 1
1. [x]-x-pu-u2 = MIN<(%n m=aru)>
  in 1st sub col.: dup?# = upper part of final vertical wedge; perhaps read: [szan?]-dup?-pu-u2
2. [li]-i#-pu = MIN<(%n m=aru)>
3. [szir2?]-a#-nu = MIN<(%n m=aru)>
4. [am]-mu = zi-ri#
5. [na-an?]-na#-bu = MIN<(zi-ri#)>
6. [bu-kur]-tum = mar-tum#
7. [bi-in]-tum# = MIN<(mar-tum#)>
8. [mi-ir]-tum# = ar-da-tum#
  in 2nd sub col.: tum# = top initial horizontal wedge head visible at right break
9. [a-szu?-ba]-tum# = asz2-sza2-[tum?]
  rest broken

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)
Consult word list of Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Museum No.: BM 040727
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  • Provenience: Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-08-19 at 13:10:32 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-06-15 at 20:34:30 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-06-01 at 15:26:27 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-01-21 at 07:42:50 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2017-10-27 at 09:15:01 Englund, Robert K. Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2008-05-26 at 05:29:20 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-08-15 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Veldhuis, Niek CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“BM 040727 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P349851.
BM 040727 artifact entry (No. P349851). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P349851 (Original work published 2006)
BM 040727 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P349851 (Accessed: April 16, 2024).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-04-16]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {BM 040727 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P349851},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P349851},
}


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