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The first cities. The first stories. Still here, written in clay.

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Ubaid Uruk Period Early Dynastic Akkadian Empire Ur III · Neo-Sumerian Old Babylonian Old Assyrian Middle Babylonian Middle Assyrian Neo-Assyrian Neo-Babylonian Achaemenid Persian

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~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- ritual fragment MET ME86 11 359

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid or Seleucid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Religion & Myth

~450 BCE

·Achaemenid Persian

Editorial

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 25

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME86 11 200

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- temple account MET ME86 11 178

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~450 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- temple account of bread MET ME86 11 402

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Cuneiform tablet- ritual fragment MET ME86 11 359

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 25

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME86 11 200

Cuneiform tablet- temple account MET ME86 11 178

Cuneiform tablet- temple account of bread MET ME86 11 402

OECT 10, 146

OIP 092, 0001

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RIMB 3.nn

Achaemenid History XIII, p. 272ff.

AION Suppl. 77, 09

AION Suppl. 77, 65

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