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Object Type
Museum number: 35382
Title: Object: Nabonidus Chronicle
Description: Clay cuneiform tablet. The Nabonidus Chronicle.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC BC-2ndC BC (probably)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Babylon (Iraq)
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 13.97 centimetres; Width: 14.60 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: S. Smith, BHT, 98-123, pl XI-XIV; Grayson, TCS 5, Chronicle 7; George, BiOr 53 (1996) 379 (new copy of col. iii 24-28)
Bibliographic references: Allen 2005a / The Persian Empire: A History (p.25); Pinder-Wilson 1971a / Royal Persia: a commemoration of Cyrus the Great and his successors on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire (no.20); Pritchard 1950a / Ancient Near Eastern Texts relating to the Old Testament (pp.305-307); Drews 1975a / The Babylonian Chronicles and Berossus
Location: On display (G55/dc7)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2008 26 Jun-5 Oct, Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum-Pergamonmuseum, 'Babylon, Myth and Truth' 1971, BM, 'Royal Persia: a commemoration of Cyrus the Great and his successors on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire'
Condition: Baked 27/04/1964
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1879
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 35382
Registration number: Sp-II.964
Conservation: Treatment: 19 Oct 1964; Treatment: 07 Oct 1966

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