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)
6321	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Hymn. Late Sumerian. About BC 1900(?).
6326	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Sumerian religious hymn or incantation. About BC 800. Drawing at the end. [drawing]
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.
6754B	(none)	(none)	(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. Neo-Babylonian [Neo-Babylonian has been crossed out] Entered in [illegible, maybe tab or lab] and no graves P.1, 2. E.
7002	(none)	(none)	(none)	Collection of beads. Small paste and carnelian also bronze fragments.
7003	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Glazed. White. Type CCLX. = P.191
7008	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Type LXXXIII = P.135. cf. U.7009-U.7019.
7009	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Cracked. 10 incised concentric circles round upper part of body. Type LXXXVIII. =P.182a. cf U7008 & U7010-7019
7010	(none)	1927,0527.276	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Two handles one on either side of shoulder. Type LXVII. =P.217.
7011	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. 4 concentric circles incised below rim. Type XII. =P.205.
7013	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Miniature. Glazed. White. Type XCII. =P.180.
7014	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Glazed. White. Type CXCIII. =RC.74. =L.69b (not p) [drawing]
7015	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Dark drab. Type CXCIV. =P.35a. Persian?
7016	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Dark drab. Type CCLII. =P.122.
7017	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Reddish. 2 handles. One on either side of shoulder. Type LXVII variant. =P.217.
7018	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Lip fragmentary. Type.
7022	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Miniature. Type CCXLIV. =P.196. Neo-Babylonian or Persian.
7023	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Glazed. Bluish. Type CCLXIII. =P.224. Found with U.7022. From Neo-Babylonian?
7029	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Blue green. Burnished. 2 handles one on either side. Type CCLXVI. =P.228.
7030	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. 2 handles. Glazed. Type LXVII. Variant more bellied. =P.217.
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.
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.