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BM 93005: Pinches's hand copy of the obverse (1917)

DocumentPublic domainCopy of the first millennium BC (Neo-Babylonian, uncertain)Copy of The Kassite-Akkadian vocabulary BM 93005
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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

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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

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Mysteries Department. (2026). BM 93005: Pinches's hand copy of the obverse (1917) [Copy CPY0DEDV9Q92VZ7]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/CPY0DEDV9Q92VZ7
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