NAMED IN THESE RECORDS AS THE HOLDER

The British Museum

London

2,727

records held

120

listed on this page

openly licensed photographs

matched to our catalogue

Nothing was fetched from britishmuseum.org. Its robots.txt reserves AI collection of its pages and lists this kind of client under Disallow, and its own object photography is CC BY-NC-SA, which is not an open licence. Everything here is recorded from the open cuneiform catalogues and from Wikidata, with a link on to the museum's own page — the reference use its signal does permit. Any photograph shown is a Wikimedia Commons photograph of the object, not the museum's.

2,727 records are held for this collection and 120 are listed here — the ones its own records tie to something biblical, audited first. The rest are in the research corpus, not on this page.

THE OBJECTS

What we hold for this collection.

Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III

archaeological artefact; inscription; sculpture · diorite

Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) (opens in a new tab) CC BY-SA 4.0 · share-alike

Shows Jehu of Israel, or his envoy, bringing tribute to Shalmaneser III.

black limestone Assyrian sculpture with inscriptions

CULTURE

archaeological artefact; inscription; sculpture

FINDSPOT

Nimrud

MEDIUM

diorite

MUSEUM NUMBER

1848-11-04, 0001

RECORDED HOLDER

British Museum

ARCHAEOLOGY CATALOGUE · ROW BA-005

Its reach, and its limit. Names Jehu's tribute; depicted kneeling figure may be a representative.

Bears on: 2 Kings 9-10

Matches a row of this project's archaeology catalogue

Cyrus cylinder

AD 539 · archaeological artefact; archaeological find; inscription · clay

Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). Modifications by مانفی (opens in a new tab) CC BY-SA 4.0 · share-alike

Cyrus's Babylonian proclamation, read beside the return decree of Ezra 1.

ancient cylinder covered with Akkadian cuneiform script

DATE

AD 539

CULTURE

archaeological artefact; archaeological find; inscription

FINDSPOT

Babylon

MEDIUM

clay

MUSEUM NUMBER

90920

RECORDED HOLDER

British Museum

ARCHAEOLOGY CATALOGUE · ROW BA-022

Its reach, and its limit. Restoration of cults and populations; does not explicitly name Jews or Jerusalem.

Bears on: Ezra 1; 2 Chronicles 36:22-23

Matches a row of this project's archaeology catalogue

Kurkh Monoliths

archaeological artefact · limestone

Yuber (opens in a new tab) Public domain

Shalmaneser III's monolith, which lists Ahab of Israel at the battle of Qarqar.

Assyrian stelae

CULTURE

archaeological artefact

FINDSPOT

Üçtepe

MEDIUM

limestone

MUSEUM NUMBER

ME 118883

RECORDED HOLDER

British Museum

ARCHAEOLOGY CATALOGUE · ROW BA-004

Its reach, and its limit. Ahab of Israel in an Assyrian coalition account; Qarqar itself is not narrated in Kings.

Bears on: 1 Kings 16-22

Matches a row of this project's archaeology catalogue

Lachish letters

ostracon; discovered text

NenyaAleks (opens in a new tab) Public domain

Hebrew military ostraca from the last days before Jerusalem fell.

canaanite inscriptions on clay sherds

CULTURE

ostracon; discovered text

FINDSPOT

Lachish

RECORDED HOLDER

British Museum Department of the Middle East

ARCHAEOLOGY CATALOGUE · ROW BA-043

Its reach, and its limit. Military correspondence near Babylonian conquest; not eyewitness narration of every biblical event.

Bears on: Jeremiah 34:7

Matches a row of this project's archaeology catalogue

Lachish relief

discovered text; relief sculpture

Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). (opens in a new tab) CC BY-SA 4.0 · share-alike

Assyrian palace reliefs of the siege of Lachish.

Assyrian palace reliefs

CULTURE

discovered text; relief sculpture

RECORDED HOLDER

British Museum Department of the Middle East

ARCHAEOLOGY CATALOGUE · ROW BA-013

Its reach, and its limit. Assyrian representation of the capture of Lachish.

Bears on: 2 Kings 18:14,17; 2 Chronicles 32:9

Matches a row of this project's archaeology catalogue

Nebo-Sarsekim Tablet

595 BC · clay tablet · clay

Names an official who also appears in Jeremiah 39:3.

cuneiform inscription

DATE

595 BC

CULTURE

clay tablet

FINDSPOT

Sippar

MEDIUM

clay

RECORDED HOLDER

British Museum

ARCHAEOLOGY CATALOGUE · ROW BA-027

Its reach, and its limit. Possible matching Babylonian official; translation and identity need qualification.

Bears on: Jeremiah 39:3

Matches a row of this project's archaeology catalogue

AchHist 15, 007

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) · Akkadian · clay

AchHist 15, 007

DATE

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

CULTURE

Akkadian

PERIOD

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

FINDSPOT

Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)

MEDIUM

clay

MUSEUM NUMBER

BM 026498

RECORDED HOLDER

British Museum, London, UK

The museum's own record names a biblical person or place

Named in the record: nabonidus · nimrud

AchHist 15, 008

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) · Akkadian · clay

AchHist 15, 008

DATE

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

CULTURE

Akkadian

PERIOD

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

FINDSPOT

Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)

MEDIUM

clay

MUSEUM NUMBER

BM 025625

RECORDED HOLDER

British Museum, London, UK

The museum's own record names a biblical person or place

Named in the record: nabonidus · nimrud

AchHist 15, 009

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) · Akkadian · clay

AchHist 15, 009

DATE

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

CULTURE

Akkadian

PERIOD

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

FINDSPOT

Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)

MEDIUM

clay

MUSEUM NUMBER

BM 094728

RECORDED HOLDER

British Museum, London, UK

The museum's own record names a biblical person or place

Named in the record: nabonidus · nimrud

AchHist 15, 010

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) · Akkadian · clay

AchHist 15, 010

DATE

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

CULTURE

Akkadian

PERIOD

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

FINDSPOT

Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)

MEDIUM

clay

DIMENSIONS

? x ? x ?

MUSEUM NUMBER

BM 024480

RECORDED HOLDER

British Museum, London, UK

The museum's own record names a biblical person or place

Named in the record: nabonidus · nimrud

AchHist 15, 011

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) · Akkadian · clay

AchHist 15, 011

DATE

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

CULTURE

Akkadian

PERIOD

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

FINDSPOT

Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)

MEDIUM

clay

MUSEUM NUMBER

BM 094738

RECORDED HOLDER

British Museum, London, UK

The museum's own record names a biblical person or place

Named in the record: nabonidus · nimrud

AchHist 15, 014

Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Akkadian · clay

AchHist 15, 014

DATE

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

CULTURE

Akkadian

PERIOD

Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

FINDSPOT

Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)

MEDIUM

clay

MUSEUM NUMBER

BM 026569

RECORDED HOLDER

British Museum, London, UK

The museum's own record names a biblical person or place

Named in the record: cyrus · nimrud

Records and photographs are the museums' and archives' own, used under the licences each one states. A record here is a record, not an endorsement of any reading of the object.

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