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The Kassite-Akkadian vocabulary BM 93005

DocumentPublic domainCopy of the first millennium BC (Neo-Babylonian, uncertain)
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A Babylonian clay tablet in the British Museum with 48 Kassite words in the left column and their Akkadian equivalents in the right: divine names, nouns, verbs and adjectives. First published by Pinches in 1917, re-edited by Balkan in 1954 and collated by Brinkman in 1997, it is the only Kassite "text" that exists.

Theophilus G. Pinches. Public domain

Copies 2

Pinches's hand copy of the obverse (1917)Theophilus G. Pinches · commons.wikimedia.org · 1917 · Public domainPrimary source: The Language of the Kassites1 step from the original
Cdli catalogue record p585279Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · cdli.earth · CDLI terms of use: catalogue data freely reusable with attributionPrimary source: CDLI Terms of Use1 step from the original

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BrusselsAmsterdamBirminghamEssenThe HagueLilleCologne1British Museum200 kmBrusselsDublinAmsterdamLuxembourg1200 km

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The Kassite-Akkadian vocabulary BM 93005 [Artifact ART0DEDTSVZ818A]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDTSVZ818A
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