Neo-Babylonian

Description:

After the collapse of the Assyrian Empire, led by a coalition of Babylonians, Medes, Scythians, and Cimmerians, the Neo-Babylonian Empire flourished. The seat of the empire was transferred from Nineveh to Babylonia, and economics, agriculture, building projects, arts, and sciences flourished. The period was a renaissance of Sumerian/Akkadian traditions. Temples dominated the urban social structure, legal system, and social hierarchy. The period ended during the reign of Nabonidus, when Babylon was captured by Cyrus the Great.

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Middle Chronology: 625-539 BCE

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
(none)	(none)	2000,0831.3	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1970,0416.1	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1963,0716.1	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1935,0113.428	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1932,1008.286	(none)	(none)
90709	(none)	1931,1010.586	(none)	(none)
17348	(none)	1931,1010.246	(none)	Beads. Glass paste. Possibly the Horus Eye? Discoid and barrel beads also animals head pendants - flat. [A-C] 3 animals of type (A). [D] 1 animal of type (B). Each has a raised border of blue glass paste on one side and a pellet of blue glass paste for the eyes. [E] One Puzuzu head [E]. [drawing]
(none)	(none)	1930,1213.675	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1929,1017.638	(none)	(none)
8837B	(none)	1928,1009.9	(none)	Clay cylinder. Fragments giving bottom half of the 2 columns ? dedication to Sin-Nannar Style of Nebuchonosor. H.C.71.
3187	(none)	1927,1003.257	(none)	Fragment of blue glass paste. [drawing 1:1]
2747	(none)	1927,1003.254	(none)	Paste statuette. Blue glass paste, much worn. Servant in attitude of devotion. Head and trunk only. [drawing 1:1]
6754A	(none)	1927,0527.92	(none)	[A-B] 2 copper graves. Both shaped with flat rims and two handles at each end. Covered over by wooden lid let down into ground by ropes. Corbelled burnt brick box built over them. Traces of rope remain on one handle of (A). Neo-Babylonian [Neo-Babylonian has been crossed out]. Entered in [illegible, maybe tab or lab] and no graves P.1, 2. E.
7010	(none)	1927,0527.276	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Two handles one on either side of shoulder. Type LXVII. =P.217.
1560A	(none)	1924,0920.243	(none)	[A-B] Two fragments of large baked clay cylinder of Nabonidus: containing parts of column I & II of the inscription on cylinder K.1688 in the British Museum. These fragments possibly belong to that cylinder.
67A	(none)	1923,1110.200	B15239	Clay seals 2. From wheat-sack fastening cords each bearing stamps of oval seals. on (A) pegasus, lion, stag. on (B) lion(?), Bucranium, etc. [Annotated] B and Phil
806	(none)	1923,1110.2	(none)	Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of NABONIDUS. The fragments of the iron shoe of the door-post are still fixed in the stone.
472	(none)	1923,1110.137	(none)	Silver vase. Broken on one side, but most of the fragments found. The sides are intentionally indented. Very thin metal in fair condition. [drawing 1:5]
76A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-BQ] 64 tablets and fragments of tablets, numbering in all 15-20 tablets of the contract type, Persian period, mostly dated in the reign of Ataxerxes. A single hoard in burnt stratum near surface, near a large pot. [BR-BX]+7 tablets and fragments of the same hoard in the small box. [BY]+1 fragment from the same hoard placed in the small box
93	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. fr. of = Inscribed [Annotated] TTB Neo-Babylonian
134	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fr. of Clay Tablet. Inscribed [Annotated] Account tablet of Persian or New Babylonian period. [Annotated] Placed in 1N/No. 2.
135A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-N] Frs. of tablets. 14 frs. in all. Inscribed. Persian date.
599	52-30-38	(none)	(none)	Tablet, complete. New Babylonian letter from Shamash-dur to a lady concerning certain birds.
1111	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment (711) of New Babylonian Clay cylinder with inscription for Nabonidus (cf. Langdon, Neubab.Konigsinscar. P.250ff.) Duplicate of U.1131, U.1132 and other fragments unnumbered making up part of the complete cylinder.
1131	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment from middle of a baked clay cylinder of Nabonidus (cf. U.1132, U.1111) in 2 columns 2 3/8 [60.325mm] by 1 3/4 [44.45mm] inscription concerning the building of E-lugal-galga-si-sa, the Ziggurat of Ur. Joins U.1132, and another fragment unnumbered making up part of complete cylinder.