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Publication
Primary publication: JANES 30, 37-53
Author: Horowitz, Wayne
Publication date: 2006
Secondary publication(s): H. V. Hilprecht, Explorations in Bible Lands during the 19th Century (1903) p. 530; A. Jeremias, Handbuch der alterorientalischen Geisteskultur, (2nd ed.; Berlin and Leipzig, 1929), 197–199, (photograph); Friberg, Jöran, AfO 52, 129
Citation: Waerzeggers, Caroline & Siebes, Ronny, NABU 2007/040; Horowitz, Wayne & Schnider, Steven, NABU 2009/007: Colburn, Jerome, NABU 2009/043
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CDLI no.: P259099
UCLA Library ARK 21198/zz001tn6sz
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Catalogue: 20050425 fitzgerald_upenn
Transliteration: no atf
Translation: no translation
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Collection Information
Owner: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum no.: CBS 01766
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Acquisition history: Collected: Khabaza 2, Jan. 1889

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Genre: Astronomical
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Sub-genre remarks: Astronomical. With star of 7 fragments, 2 fragments joined. According to information from Arab, the star-tablet from Nippur, doubtless correct.""
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Object type: tablet
Material: clay
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Object preservation: fragment
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Period: Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)
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