tablet

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Object Type
Museum number: 21901
Description: Clay tablet; Late Babylonian; Chronicle for the years 616-609 BC, famous for its description of the fall of Nineveh.
Authority
Regnal date: (no date)
Cultures/periods
Production date: 550BC-400BC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Iraq, South
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 13.65 centimetres; Width: 7.14 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Sigrist M et al 1996a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, II; Allen 2005a / The Persian Empire: A History (p.21); Gadd 1923a / The Fall of Nineveh. The newly discovered Babylonian chronicle. No. 21,901, in the British Museum, edited with transliteration, translation, notes, etc.; Drews 1975a / The Babylonian Chronicles and Berossus
Location: On display (G55/dc3)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2018-2019 8 Nov-24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria 2008 26 Jun-5 Oct, Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum-Pergamonmuseum, 'Babylon, Myth and Truth' 2008 14 Mar-2 Jun, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 'Babylon'
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1896
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 21901
Registration number: 1896,0409.6
Conservation

Free entry