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)
17206I	52-30-108	(none)	(none)	[A-Q] Clay tablets. 16. Commercial. (A) Seal: Samas-mansi (m) s.o. Ursanum; Date: mu alan-guskin e ^dUD-su, i-ni-tu (r)-ri. (B) Seal: Nuratum s.o. 'Atta' ; Date: (C) Date: mu bad-gal. (D) [No data] (E) Date: mu^d Ri-im-^dSin lugal. Rim-Sin I. (F) [No data] (G) [No data] (H) [No data] (I) No date. [J] [Skipped] [Added tablet recorded at BM as U.17206 I2] (K) [No data] (L) Date partially lost. (M) Date lost. (N) Date lost. (O) Date: i.q. (e) (P) Date partially lost. (Q) Date: i.q. (b) [CARD MISSING: information from later typed transcript]
7827D	52-30-111	(none)	(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.
16036	52-30-112, 52-30-112	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17249I	52-30-114	(none)	(none)	U number not assigned in field
7836C	52-30-128	(none)	(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)
7795A	52-30-148	(none)	(none)	Tablets. A) Long tablet made from 7795A and a fragment marked U.7785D. B) Join made from U.7795B and a fragment marked U.7786C. C) C) 2 fragments of 2 large account tablets. D) 5 other fragments (U.7795 perhaps belongs with one)? E) a date of Sumu(ilum) F) tablet dated under Abisarie. [G-AA] The rest are 21 business documents. Doc. G. belongs with U.7786B? Ur Texts Vol. V 357, 722, 223 882, 721, 442 411, 586, 592, 873
7804C	52-30-149	(none)	(none)	Tablets [A-R] Tablets. 18 tablets, envelope, and fragments X A and B contain dates: not identified. X B=Rim Sin3 7804C cf. 7832 K.K? But in text In this lot is a text relating to Gilgamesh and Lugal-bande.
16096	52-30-158, 52-30-157	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Date: mu gis tukul ba-an-sig UET/V:397 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16502	52-30-164, 52-30-164	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
7827H	52-30-175	(none)	(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.
16524D	52-30-175	(none)	(none)	[A-F] 6 Clay tablets. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) mu-us-sa-a-bi 4-kam-ma, i-si-in-na in-dib Rim-Sin; (B) no date...; (C) no date...; (D) no date...; (E) no date...; (F) no date...;
18767	52-30-176	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. One corner chipped.
16596E	52-30-178, 52-30-178	(none)	(none)	[A-E] 5 clay tablets. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) Fourth ? year after Isin was conquered Rim-Sin; (B) Fourth year after Isin was conquered Rim-Sin; (C) i.q. (A)...Seal; (D) Fifth year after Isin was conquered Rim-sin. (E) no date.
16826P	52-30-179	(none)	(none)	[Card Missing]
7802H	52-30-180	(none)	(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.
8806I	52-30-181	(none)	(none)	[A-Q] Tablets. Business. 17 tablets. [R-AB] 11 fragments. dates on small tablets: (A) Dungi 36, (B) Dungi 37, (C) Dungi 41 (D) Dungi 54, (E) Mu-us-sa-bi. A: cf.U.7827 ppp?, F: cf.U.8810 F?
16097	52-30-182, 52-30-182	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet UET/V:493 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
8806J	52-30-183, 47-29-384	(none)	(none)	[A-Q] Tablets. Business. 17 tablets. [R-AB] 11 fragments. dates on small tablets: (A) Dungi 36, (B) Dungi 37, (C) Dungi 41 (D) Dungi 54, (E) Mu-us-sa-bi. A: cf.U.7827 ppp?, F: cf.U.8810 F?
16089A	52-30-188	(none)	(none)	[A-C] 3 clay tablets. (a) Semitic Babylonian letter to E-a-na-si-ir from Mu-ha-du-um; UET/V:29 (b) Commercial (?); (c) Commercial; HC.30/VIII, 2.; UET/V:804 UET/V:520 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
7802I	52-30-192	(none)	(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.
16827C	52-30-193, 52-30-193	(none)	(none)	[Card Missing]
441	52-30-199	(none)	(none)	Tablet. Accounts on obverse, dated at bottom of 4th col rev (date illegible) Same find as U.339 in TTB9.
16826Y	52-30-200, 52-30-200	(none)	(none)	[Card Missing]
7795I	52-30-205	(none)	(none)	Tablets. A) Long tablet made from 7795A and a fragment marked U.7785D. B) Join made from U.7795B and a fragment marked U.7786C. C) C) 2 fragments of 2 large account tablets. D) 5 other fragments (U.7795 perhaps belongs with one)? E) a date of Sumu(ilum) F) tablet dated under Abisarie. [G-AA] The rest are 21 business documents. Doc. G. belongs with U.7786B? Ur Texts Vol. V 357, 722, 223 882, 721, 442 411, 586, 592, 873
7729	52-30-211	(none)	(none)	Tablet. With figures. cf. 7726.

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Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
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)
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 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 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)