tablet
- Museum number
- 36761
- Description
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Clay cuneiform tablet. Astronomical Diary; mentions Alexander's entry to Babylon.
- Production date
- 331BC-330BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.50 centimetres
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Weight: 210 grammes
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Thickness: 3 centimetres
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Width: 8 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- LBAT 196; Wiseman, Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon, 119-121; Sachs-Hunger, Astronomical Diaries I, no. -330 A; Brinkman, NABU 1987, 34, no. 63.
- Location
- On display (G52/dc3)
- Exhibition history
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2022-2023 21 Oct-19 Feb, London, British Library, Alexander: Legend of a Life
2013 22 Mar-3 Nov, Lokschuppen Rosenheim, Alexander the Great
2006 7 Mar-11 Jun, Barcelona, Fundacion La Caixa, 'L'imperi Oblidat'
2005-2006 Sept-Jan, London, BM, 'Forgotten Empire'
G52/IRAN/6/5, from 17/11/95-Aug 2005.
1994 16 Jun-23 Dec, BM, G49/IRAN, case 6, no. 10.
- Condition
- Baked 21/06/1954
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 36761
- Registration number
- 1880,0617.496
