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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: 32234
Description: Clay cuneiform tablet. Astronomical; lunar eclipse table for at least 609-447 BC.
Cultures/periods: Late Babylonian
Production date: 4thC BC
Production place: Made in: Babylon (historic - Iraq)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Babylon (historic - Iraq)
Materials: clay
Dimensions: Height: 7.80 centimetres; Length: 3 inches; Weight: 287 grammes; Thickness: 3.30 centimetres; Width: 10.20 centimetres; Width: 4 inches
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: LBAT *1419; Kennedy, JCS 38, 205, T.17n.3; Stephenson, HEER, 149, 152-3, 166, 173-4, 198, 208; ADART V no. 4; Stolper, NABU 1999, 6-9, no. 6.
Bibliographic references: Sachs A J 1955 / Late Babylonian Astronomical and Related Texts (no.1419); Walker 1997a / Achaemenid Chronology and the Babylonian Sources (p.20, figs. 6-7); Sachs A J & Hunger H 2001 / Astronomical diaries and related texts from Babylonia, V: Lunar and planetary texts (pp.16-21); Allen 2005a / The Persian Empire: A History (p.57) (obv & rev)
Location: On display (G52/dc3)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: G2/169/1, from 13 Apr-Dec 2006. G52/IRAN/6/4, from official opening 17/11/95-Aug 2005. 1994 16 Jun-23 Dec, BM, G49/IRAN/6/11.
Condition: Baked 25/04/1962
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Michele Marini; Purchased through: George Smith
Acquisition date: 1876
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 32234
Registration number: 1876,1117.1961
Conservation: Treatment: 03 Oct 1962

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