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Cuneiform tablet- receipt for rent payment, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 9
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- receipt for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 3
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- receipt of silver for a wash-bowl MET ME86 11 219
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- record of expenditures of silver, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 107
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- record of sale MET ME86 11 150
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- record of silver for purchase of animals, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 218
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- record of silver for supplies, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 234
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- sale of real estate MET ME86 11 443
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Assyrian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 13
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME86 11 145
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Dagon Museum, Cuneiform document on clay tablet
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Dagon Museum, Downtown, Haifa, Israel The Museum is dedicated to the history of grain products מוזיאון דגון בעיר התחתית בחיפה שוכן במבנה המשרדים של ממגורות דגון. המוזיאון מוקדש לתולדות הדגן ומוצריו, ו
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Hattusa Bronze Tablet Cuneiform
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Bronze tablet from Çorum-Boğazköy dating from 1235 BC. Photographed at Museum of Anatolian Civilisations. This cuneiform document excavated at Hattusa in 1986 is the only bronze tablet found in Anatol
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Hittite Cuneiform Tablet- Legal Deposition(?)
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Tablet on display at the Oriental Institute , with the caption: Hittite Cuneiform Tablet: Legal Deposition(?) Baked clay Hattusha Late Bronze Age (13th century BC) A6004 A6004 - VBot 30 - CTH 832
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Jehoiachin Ration Tablet detail
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Administrative tablet from the South Palace of Babylon, dated from the reign of king Nebuchednezzar, list of rations of people feeded by the royal administration, including the ex-king of Judah, Jehoi
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Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. Is a receipt for the donation of livestock to the feast for a Sumerian king
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: The oldest piece in the McDonald Rare Book Collection at OSU is a Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. The fragile piece has a prosaic purpose, it's a receipt for the donation of l
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Tablet BM131452
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay cuneiform tablet of a legal case before Saustatar, King of Mitanni, involving Niqmepa, King of Alalakh. Dated 1550BC-1400BC.
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Ur Bau tablet AO261 mp3h9041
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0 fr). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: .mw-parser-output table.commons-file-information-table,.mw-parser-output .fileinfotpl-type-information,.mw-parser-output .fileinfotpl-type-artwork{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);bac
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PBS 08/2, 120
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — PBS 08/2, 120. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Hammurabi y2 — Year after: Hammurabi became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
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Code of Hammurabi (stele)
Not the first law code, but the most complete and the most famous. Inscribed on a black diorite stele over two meters tall, displayed in a public place — law made visible, law made monumental.
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Amarna Letter EA 153 — Abi-milku of Tyre
Part of the earliest known body of international diplomatic correspondence. Akkadian, written in cuneiform on clay, was the lingua franca of Late Bronze Age statecraft — used between Egypt, the Hittites, Mitanni, Babylon, Assyria, and the Levantine vassals.
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Ashurnasirpal II 060
One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BCE), preserved in the RIAo corpus as a witness to the formulaic and historical record of early Neo-Assyrian kingship.
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Ashurnasirpal II 061
One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II, whose annals collectively document the territorial expansion and brutal suppression campaigns that defined early Neo-Assyrian imperial statecraft.
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Venus pl. 4
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — Venus pl. 4. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
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Gilgamesh Tablet XI.svg
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Between 1845 and 1851 CE, Sir Austen Henry Layard uncovered the cuneiform library of King Assurbanipal in Nineveh. These texts, most of which dated to the 7th century BCE, were brought back to the Bri
EconomyDaily LifeSennacherib's Annals (Taylor Prism)
One of the rare cuneiform texts that explicitly cross-references the Hebrew Bible: the same historical event narrated by both sides. The Taylor Prism gives us the Assyrian view of a moment the biblical authors framed as divine deliverance. It is also a masterpiece of imperial propaganda — the prismatic shape allows the text to be read on six faces, the cuneiform is meticulous, the rhetoric calibrated to terrify potential rebels.
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Venus pl. 3-4
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — Venus pl. 3-4. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
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Clay Tablet with Cuneiform Script Announcing Nebuchadnezzar's Capture of Jerusalem
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay Tablet with Cuneiform Script Announcing Nebuchadnezzar's Capture of Jerusalem Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC Gallery, British Museum, London, England, UK. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHisto
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Cuneiform cylinder- inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing restorations at Babylon MET ME86 11 282
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform cylinder; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
EconomyDaily LifeCyrus Cylinder
Often called the world's first declaration of human rights — a 20th-century characterization that overstates its scope; it is, more accurately, a typical Mesopotamian royal accession text framed as Marduk's restoration of order. But its references to religious tolerance and the return of exiled peoples (which the Hebrew Bible echoes in describing the end of the Babylonian Exile) have made it one of the most politically resonant cuneiform artifacts ever recovered.
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Astronomical tablet BM 32234
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay cuneiform tablet. Astronomical, lunar eclipse table for at least 609-447 BC. Dated 4th century BC. From Babylon. Refers to the murder of the Persian king Xerxes I (485-465 BC) by his son. BM 3223
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Clay tablet. The cuneiform text mentions the murder of Xerxes I (r. 485-465 BCE) by his son and a lunar eclipse (609-447 BCE). From Babylon, Iraq. British Museum
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay tablet. The cuneiform text mentions the murder of the Achaemenid king Xerxes I (r. 485-465 BCE) by his son and a lunar eclipse (for at least 609-447 BCE). 4th century BCE. From Babylon, Iraq. Bri
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Cuneiform tablet- account of aromatics, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 118
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- account of date disbursement, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 172
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- account of dates as imittu-rent, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 65
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- account of dates as irbu-revenue, Ebabbar archive MET ME79 7 38
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- account of rent payment of pomegranates, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 165
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- account of silver disbursements, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 26
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- account of silver disbursements, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 36
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- account record, inventory, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 34
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- account regarding temple sheep, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 198
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- account statement, Egibi archive MET ME79 1 21
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- declaration before witnesses, archive of Iddin-Nabu and Shellebi MET ME86 11 147
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- declaration before witnesses, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 32
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- fragment of a receipt for silver MET vsz86.11.477b
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- fragment of an accounting record MET ME86 11 339
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet- fragment of an accounting record (?) MET vs86 11 482a
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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Cuneiform tablet impressed with seal- account of archers for military service, Ebabbar archive MET DP239004
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed-Seal Impressions
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Cuneiform tablet impressed with seal- account of payments to hired workers MET DP239006
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed-Seal Impressions
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Cuneiform tablet impressed with seal- account of payments to hired workers MET ME86 11 319
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed-Seal Impressions
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Cuneiform tablet- loan with work agreement, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 24
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
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