tablet

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Object Type
Museum number: 29447
Description: Clay tablet. Archive of Bēliyā'u (Šaddinnu / Balāssu); receipt for silver (for harmil meat cuts from prebends in Ezida); postscript.
Authority
Regnal date: 19/3/21
Cultures/periods
Production date: 503BC-502BC
Production place: Made in: Borsippa
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Temple of Nabu (Borsippa)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 4.10 centimetres; Thickness: 2.60 centimetres; Width: 6 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Zadok R 2002a / An Achaemenid queen (pp. 63-65); Sigrist M et al 2006a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, III
Location: Not on display
Condition: Fired: 29/12/1960
Associated names: Representation of: Pa-am-mu-ú; Named in inscription: Darius I
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1898
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 29447
Registration number: 1898,1114.80
Conservation: Treatment: 20 Sep 1961; Treatment: 30 Jun 2009

Free entry