Old Babylonian

Description:

The Old Babylonian Period describes southern Mesopotamia where a number of important sates dominated the region, including Isin, Larsa, Eshnuna, and Babylon. The sixth ruler of Babylon, Hamurabi, unified the southern states and expanded his control into north Mesopotamia. After his death, the empire gradually shrank, but remained an important power until it was sacked by the Hittite king Mursili I. During the Old Babylonian period, literary activity flourished with scribes composing and recording religious, poetic, and ‘scientific’ works in Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform. The state retained the Akkadian language for official use, and the Sumerian language for religious use, but Amorite was the spoken language. The earlier Akkadian and Sumerian traditions played a major role in Babylonian culture.

Ultra-Low Chronology: 1798-1499 BCE

Short/Low Chronology: 1830-1531 BCE

Middle Chronology: 1894-1595 BCE

Long/High Chronology: 1950-1651 BCE

Objects: Old Babylonian Export: JSON - XML - CSV

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
7735	(none)	1953,0411.271	(none)	Tablet. Table of statistics?
7836N	52-30-266	1953,0411.54	(none)	[A-U] Tablets. Principally contracts. [lettered on card in lower case Greek, transliterated in order written from a-s, skipping j] (A) contract dated to 36th year of Rim-Sin. NB envelope marked alpha goes with this) (B) multiplication table: 4 times. (C) (fragment of envelope in lot U.7837 goes with this?) (D) date: Rim-Sin 55. (E) date apparently (a variety?) of Hammurabi (mu H)a-am-mu-ra-bi; (nu-u)h-ush-ni-shu- mu-un-ba-a(l) (F) _ (G) contract beginning with 18 or more nom. prop. of witnesses. date = ?... (H) Rim-Sin 36. (I) _ [J] [Not assigned] (K) _ (L) _ (M) _ (N) _ (O) _ (P) _ (Q) _ (R) same date as s. (S) same date as r. (T) Rim-Sin 12. (U) others. with omega cf. U.7827p.p.p. HC.59 (seal impressions) (the copies restored from many impressions. When from cover, verification from inner tablet required)
16815	(none)	1953,0411.56	(none)	Clay tablet. Babylonian letter to:(...) From:(...). H.C. 30/XV,1. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16099	(none)	1953,0411.58	(none)	Clay tablet. Fragment. UET/V:68 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16830Q	(none)	1953,0411.59	(none)	[Card Missing]
17201	(none)	1953,0411.60	(none)	Clay tablet. Babylonian letter. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16840	(none)	1953,0411.61	(none)	[Card Missing]
16810	(none)	1953,0411.64	(none)	Clay tablet. Babylonian letter. To; A-hi-i..., From: A-hi-mar-si. [CARD MISSING: information from later typed transcript]
7802D	(none)	1953,0411.65	(none)	[A-V] 22 tablets, complete and incomplete. Mostly accounts. HC.48. (A) List of fields. (B) accounts (with new? date) (C) Accounts (gardener's) (D) Accounts (of wood?) (E) Accounts (Payments of silver) (F) List of 9 semantic Proper Names (G) Account of silas of - payed on successorship (H) Account of Silas pays by various patrons[?] (I) Account of ammts received from 2 person on kelens [?] [J is skipped] (K) Payments of -, and proper names (semetic) (L) Delivery [?] of 68 Mas-Gir Goats.
16826V	(none)	1953,0411.66	(none)	[Card Missing]
16580B	(none)	1953,0411.68	(none)	Card Missing
16062A	(none)	1953,0411.70	(none)	[A-B] 2 clay tablets. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) Babylonian letter; (B) Babylonian letter to Lu-ud-lu-ul-... from: A-hu-ki-nu-un; HC.30/XIII, 1. (B) UET/V:4
16814A	(none)	1953,0411.71	(none)	[A-E] Clay tablets. Babylonian letters to E-a-na-si-ir (var. -sir). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) From: IM(?)- ^dAdad, HC.30/; (B) From: A-ap-pa-a, HC.30/xiv, 1; (C) From: I-(li)-i-din-, H.C. 30/XIII, 2; (D) From: Ar-bi-tu-um, H.C. 30/XIII, 1; (E) From Su-mi-a-tar-um (also addressed to Ilu-su-ellat-su). HC.30/XIV, 2.
16870B	(none)	1953,0411.72	(none)	[Card Missing]
18766	(none)	1953,0411.73	(none)	Clay tablet. One edge broken away.
16830N	(none)	1953,0411.78	(none)	[Card Missing]
16585	(none)	1953,0411.79	(none)	Clay tablet. Division of an estate between Ri-ba-am-i-li and Nanar-ni-zu; Seal: ri(-ba_-am-i-li; dumu Bur- dSin. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16506C	(none)	1953,0411.80	(none)	[A-G] 7 clay tablets. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) mu-us-sa 10 kam i-si-in-na in-dib-ba. (B) mugis gu-za bar zag-bi-us kuggi bar es-ma mah ^dinanna-ra mu-na-dim. ; (C) (no date); (D) (No date); (E) (No date); (F) (no date); (G) (no date).
7827I	(none)	1953,0411.83	(none)	[A-X] Tablets. Contracts and accounts of Larsa - Bab I period. (cf. also U.7832). Dates: (A) Sumuilum 1; (B) Sumuilum 1; (C) Rim-Sin 49; (D) Samsuiluna, etc. fc. (M) (N) lists of names. many fragments: p.p.p.) fragments of one large tablet cf. U.7836W (or 8806A); t.t.) seem to belong together; Q) seal impression; S) contract with many fragments of its envelope (with seal impression); W) cf. U.7832L; X) cf. U.7832B.
16826L	(none)	1953,0411.91	(none)	[Card Missing]
16575	(none)	1953,0411.93	(none)	Clay Tablet. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
(none)	(none)	1980,1013.1	(none)	(none)

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Locations: Old Babylonian Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
House III	Excavation designation for a portion of area AH that was eventually published as No. 1 Church Lane and No. 1 Straight Street. It was also called the Pa-Sag or Hendur-Sag chapel. This space was identified as a neighborhood or wayside chapel at the NW edge of Carfax.	(none)
House I	Excavation house designation on the southeast side of Straight Street (originally called Division Street as it divided the first excavation house designations I, II, and III). This unit covered published houses No.2 and No. 4 Straight Street.	(none)
House II	Excavation house designation on the northwest side of Straight Street (originally called Division Street because it divided the initial excavation units of House I, II, and III). This unit may have initially contained some rooms in No. 3 Straight Street.	(none)
House IV	Excavation designation in area AH mostly covering No. 1 Old Street but likely containing parts of No. 7 Church Lane as well.	(none)