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Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver for establishment of a harranu-partnership, Egibi archive
Babylonian
ca. 550 BCE
Cuneiform tablet impressed with seal: temple inventory, Esangila archive
ca. 327 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: fragment
Achaemenid
ca. 404–338 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: Utu-gin e-ta, balag composition addressed to Enlil
Seleucid
ca. 145 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for barley, Esagilaya archive
Babylonian
ca. 558 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a contract
Babylonian or Achaemenid
ca. 7th–4th century BCE
Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the rebuilding of the temple of the mother-goddess Ninmah/Belet-ili at Babylon
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for barley, Esagilaya archive
Babylonian
ca. 555–539 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: dilmun nigin-na, ershemma, to Marduk
Seleucid or Parthian
ca. 2nd–1st century BCE
Cuneiform tablet: Utukku lemnutu, tablet 3
Seleucid
ca. late 1st millennium BCE
Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver
Assyrian
ca. 652 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: slave sale, Egibi archive
Babylonian
ca. 554 BC
Cuneiform tablet: letter about cultic matters
Seleucid
ca. 157 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for barley, Esagilaya archive
Babylonian
ca. 568 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: quittance for rent, Esagilaya archive
Achaemenid
ca. 528 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: unidentified balag
Seleucid or Parthian
ca. 2nd–1st century BCE

Cuneiform prism describing the restoration of Babylon by Esarhaddon, stamped with Assyrian hieroglyphic inscription

Assyrian
ca. 676–672 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: balag colophon fragment
Parthian
ca. 135 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: slave sale, Egibi archive
Achaemenid
ca. 523 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: house rental contract
Achaemenid
ca. 497 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for barley, Esagilaya archive
Babylonian
ca. 555–539 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: Utukku lemnutu, tablet 12
ca. late 1st millennium BCE
Cuneiform tablet: school exercise tablet
ca. late 1st millennium BCE
Cuneiform tablet: record of a judicial decision
Babylonian
ca. 555–539 BCE
Cuneiform tablet impressed with scaraboid (?) ring seal: receipt for gold
Babylonian
ca. 560 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver, Egibi archive
Babylonian
ca. 545 BC
Cuneiform tablet: im-ma-al-(la) gu de-de, balag
Seleucid
ca. 175–174 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: Utukku lemnutu, tablet 16
Seleucid
ca. late 1st millennium BCE
Cuneiform tablet: Utukku lemnutu, tablet 12
Seleucid
ca. late 1st millennium BCE
Cuneiform tablet: cession of promissory note (?), Esagilaya archive
Babylonian
ca. 555–539 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: receipt for barley, Esagilaya archive
Babylonian
ca. 557 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: quittance for rent, Esagilaya archive
Achaemenid
ca. 523 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: Utukku lemnutu, tablet 12
Seleucid
ca. late 1st millennium BCE
Cuneiform tablet: deposition/record of oath
Achaemenid
ca. 522–486 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: unidentified balag
Seleucid or Parthian
ca. 2nd–1st century BCE
Cuneiform prism: inscription of Esarhaddon
Assyrian
ca. 676–672 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: nir-gal lu e-NE, balag to Ninurta
Seleucid or Parthian
ca. 2nd–1st century BCE
Cuneiform tablet: school exercise tablet
ca. late 1st millennium BCE
Cuneiform tablet: adoption declaration, Egibi archive
Babylonian
ca. 546 BC
Cuneiform tablet: assumption of debt by guarantor, archive of Bel-remanni
Achaemenid
ca. 509 BCE