tablet

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Object Type
Museum number: 45962
Description: Clay cuneiform tablet. Astronomical Diary, mentions death of Alexander.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 323BC-322BC
Production place: Made in: Iraq, South
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Babylon (Iraq)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 6 centimetres; Weight: 77 grammes; Thickness: 3 centimetres; Width: 4.60 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: LBAT 209; Sachs-Hunger, Astronomical Diaries 1, no -322 B
Bibliographic references: Sachs & Hunger 1988a / Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia (pp. 204-207 and pl. 34) (transliteration, translation and photograph); Sachs A J 1955 / Late Babylonian Astronomical and Related Texts (no. 209) (copy); Walker 1997a / Achaemenid Chronology and the Babylonian Sources (p.25); Allen 2005a / The Persian Empire: A History (p.151)
Location: On display (G35/dc26)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2023 4 May - 13 Aug, London, BM, G35, Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece 2022-2023 15 Oct - Feb, London, BM, 4 Lives, G4 2013 22 Mar-3 Nov, Lokschuppen Rosenheim, Germany, 'Alexander the Great' 2006 13 Apr-Dec, BM, G2/169/3
Condition: Fragment
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1881
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 45962
Registration number: 1881,0706.403
Conservation: Treatment: 01 Feb 2006; Treatment: 30 Mar 2023

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