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Artifact

Period

1 Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)

60 ED I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC)

4 ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)

22 Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)

1 Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC)

64 Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

2 Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)

1 Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)

167 Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

20 Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

2 Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)

77 Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

129 Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

5 Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

504 no value

Material

1 bone

39 clay

3 faience

1 glass

2 metal > bronze

1 metal > silver

13 no value

789 stone

14 stone > igneous rock > basalt

1 stone > igneous rock > diorite

3 stone > metamorphic rock > lapis lazuli

3 stone > metamorphic rock > marble

21 stone > metamorphic rock > steatite

2 stone > mineral > carnelian

9 stone > mineral > chalcedony

1 stone > mineral > chlorite

1 stone > mineral > cornelian

124 stone > mineral > hematite

8 stone > mineral > jasper

4 stone > mineral > onyx

1 stone > mineral > quartz

4 stone > mineral > rock crystal

8 stone > mineral > serpentine

1 stone > polypary fossil

5 stone > sedimentary rock > limestone

Artifact type

1 Display Inscription > kudurru

1 Jewellery > amulet

1 Vessel > vase

2 cylinder > barrel

4 no value

885 seal (not impression) > Cylinder seal

131 seal (not impression) > Stamp seal

33 tablet or envelope > tablet

1 tag

Provenience

1 Babylon (mod. Bābil)

15 Girsu (mod. Tello)

1 Isin (mod. Bahriyat)

1 Kanesh (mod. Kültepe)

1 Larsa (mod. Tell as-Senkereh)

1 Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

1 Puzriš-Dagan (mod. Drehem)

2 Pārśa (mod. Persepolis)

1 Ugarit (mod. Ras Shamra)

10 Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)

1 Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)

4 no value

1,020 uncertain (mod. uncertain)

Museum Collections

1,059 Département des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France

Composite/seal

2 composite

11 composite witness

1,016 seal

13 seal impression

23 other

Textual

Language

12 Akkadian

2 Egyptian

4 Elamite

4 Persian

55 Sumerian

1 Ugaritic

991 no value

Genre

1,047 Administrative

1 Legal

1 Literary > Ritual and liturgical > Prayer

9 Official or display

1 no value

Publication

Authors

2 Amiet, Pierre

1 Charpin, Dominique

3 Collon, Dominique

650 Delaporte, Louis

1 Dietrich, Manfried

15 Durand, Jean-Marie

1 Eisser, George

1 Frame, Grant

31 Frankfort, Henri

5 Frayne, Douglas R.

4 Genouillac, Henri de

2 Grayson, A. Kirk

1 Jean, Charles-François

1 Jeffers, Joshua

1 Lambert, Maurice

1 Lewy, Julius

1 Loretz, Oswald

1 Matthews, Donald M.

13 Niederreiter, Zoltán

1 Novotny, Jamie

1 Oppert, Jules

1 Pinches, Theophilus G.

11 Porter, Barbara A.

1 Sanmartín, Joaquín

4 Weissbach, F. H.

2 no value

Date of publication

1 1881

1 1895

4 1909

650 1910

4 1911

1 1923

1 1930

31 1939

1 1953

2 1973

14 1979

1 1981

1 1987

6 1990

1 1995

1 1996

11 2001

3 2005

1 2013

11 2014

2 2015

1 2017

1 2023

2 no value

Credits

Contributing project

3 Geomapping Landscapes of Writing

4 Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages

5 Sceaux-cylindres du Proche-Orient ancien

191 no value

Data

Artifact images

32 lineart

853 photo

Chemical data

0 With

1,059 Without

External link

1 Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions online

3 Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities

26 Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts

863 Sceaux-cylindres du Proche-Orient ancien

Image Annotations

40 With

1,019 Without

Publications

702 With

357 Without

Transliteration

683 With

376 Without

Text Annotations

4 With

1,055 Without

Transcription

0 With

1,059 Without

Translation

16 With

1,043 Without

Translation Language

16 en