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Cuneiform Tablets from the Wiseman Collection1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2014

Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor*
Affiliation:
Department of the Middle East, British Museum, London WC1B3DG, jjtaylor@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
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Abstract

The remains of the Percy J. Wiseman collection of cuneiform tablets were acquired in 2010 by the British Museum, where they now form the 2010-6-022 collection. The tablets almost all originate from southern Iraq, including the sites of Drehem, Larsa, Nippur, Sippar and Umma. They constitute records from the Ur III and Old Babylonian periods (21st–17th century B.C.) and from the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods (6th–4th century B.C.). This article provides an overview of the collection and makes the texts available for further study.

Type
Research Article
Information
IRAQ , Volume 74 , 2012 , pp. 127 - 136
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2012

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Footnotes

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I would like to thank Irving Finkel and Caroline Waerzeggers for their invaluable assistance in solving problems in these texts.

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