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)
7031	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Dark drab. Type LXX. =P.137.
7032	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Miniature. Glazed white. Type XCIII. Variant more bellied. =P.108b.
7033	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay bowl. Dark drab. Type CXCIV. =P.35a.
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
7789H	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablets Small tablets and fragments (24 more or less complete small tablets: most, probably all, business: 7 considerable and 5 small fragments, prob. partly belonging together; but not joinable. 4 small fragments unnumbered in match box.) One tablet apparently dated to Kadashman Enlil (II? 1276-71).
7821	(none)	(none)	(none)	Brick Nabonidus = U2863 but half breadth.
7827N	(none)	(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.
7839L	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
7839Q	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
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.
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.
8840B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. In a box, not marked, and not fully examined, the following leftover unbaked, at end of season. (A)[A and H] 2 considerable fragments. (B)[B and I-L] 5 small tablets. (C) seal impression (interesting). (D) Contract with many fragments of its envelope, with seal impressions. also baked. (E) Fragment containing some proper names. (F) Half a business note also. (G) corner of archaic tablet.
8860	52-30-40	(none)	(none)	[Card Missing]
90709	(none)	1931,1010.586	(none)	(none)
93	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. fr. of = Inscribed [Annotated] TTB Neo-Babylonian