Tablet
CBS16
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq
Curatorial Section: Babylonian
Object Number | CBS16 |
Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
Provenience | Iraq |
Period | Neo-Babylonian Period |
Date Made | ca. 550 BCE |
Section | Babylonian |
Materials | Clay |
Inscription Language | Akkadian Language |
Description | tablet, upper half, Akk, astrological; last line of reverse written in a different hand; Uruk? Borsippa?; copied from two tablets; 46 x 44 lines; MB, scientific CBS Register: baked clay tablet, fragment. 2 frags joined. Yellowish. Nabopolassar. Astrological. Dates to the reign of Nabopolasser Exhibited in the Middle East Galleries as number B16. |
Credit Line | Purchased from Joseph Shemtob, London; subscription of E. W. Clark, et. al., 1888 |
Other Number | P257581 - CDLI Number | B16 - Old Museum Number | CBS 00016 - Other Number | JS 8 - Dealer's Number |
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