WCMA 20.1.12

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Nebuchadnezzar, exile, late astronomy.

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From the same catalogue range (near P424379)

P424381 · ~2050 BCE

Orient 55, 160 no. 6

“16 workmen for 2 days: towing an empty barge from Umma to Du-geš-i(ka); for 2 days: threshing the barley and l…”

P424377 · ~2037 BCE

Orient 55, 164 no. 11

“1 sheep, (for the) siskur-offering at the threshing floor of the field GAN-mah; from Ur-halmuša; sealed tablet…”

P424382 · ~2050 BCE

Orient 55, 158-159 no. 4

“612 bundles of reed, for lading the bread-boat and for the building of two boats, for the bala-obligation; fro…”

P424376 · ~2032 BCE

Orient 55, 163 no. 9

“2/3 mana 4 shekels of copper, from Lu-kalla, charged to the account of Gududu. Sealed tablet of Ur-nungal. Yea…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) ?) — WCMA 20.1.12. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: WCMA 20.1.12 (Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P424379). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P424379..

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