NAMED IN THESE RECORDS AS THE HOLDER
The Penn Museum
Philadelphia
829
records held
24
listed on this page
openly licensed photographs
matched to our catalogue
829 records are held for this collection and 24 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.
BE 08/1, 061
Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Akkadian · clay
BE 08/1, 061
DATE
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
CULTURE
Akkadian
PERIOD
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
FINDSPOT
Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
MEDIUM
clay
DIMENSIONS
? x ? x ?
MUSEUM NUMBER
CBS 06107
RECORDED HOLDER
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The museum's own record names a biblical person or place
Named in the record: cyrus
BE 08/1, 119
Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Akkadian · clay
BE 08/1, 119
DATE
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
CULTURE
Akkadian
PERIOD
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
MEDIUM
clay
DIMENSIONS
? x ? x ?
MUSEUM NUMBER
CBS 00021
RECORDED HOLDER
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The museum's own record names a biblical person or place
Named in the record: xerxes
BE 08/1, 120
Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Akkadian · clay
BE 08/1, 120
DATE
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
CULTURE
Akkadian
PERIOD
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
FINDSPOT
Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
MEDIUM
clay
DIMENSIONS
? x ? x ?
MUSEUM NUMBER
CBS 03588
RECORDED HOLDER
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The museum's own record names a biblical person or place
Named in the record: xerxes
CBS 00624
Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Akkadian · clay
unpublished unassigned ?
DATE
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
CULTURE
Akkadian
PERIOD
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
MEDIUM
clay
DIMENSIONS
? x ? x ?
MUSEUM NUMBER
CBS 00624
RECORDED HOLDER
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The museum's own record names a biblical person or place
Named in the record: xerxes
CBS 10059
Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · clay
unpublished unassigned ?
DATE
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
PERIOD
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
FINDSPOT
Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
MEDIUM
clay
DIMENSIONS
? x ? x ?
MUSEUM NUMBER
CBS 10059
RECORDED HOLDER
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The museum's own record names a biblical person or place
Named in the record: xerxes
JCS 37, 243, 74A
Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · clay
JCS 37, 243, 74A
DATE
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
PERIOD
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
FINDSPOT
Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) / U —
MEDIUM
clay
DIMENSIONS
? x ? x ?
MUSEUM NUMBER
CBS 15345
RECORDED HOLDER
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The museum's own record names a biblical person or place
Named in the record: cyrus · ur
JCS 37, 243, 74B
Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · clay
JCS 37, 243, 74B
DATE
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
PERIOD
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
FINDSPOT
Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) / U —
MEDIUM
clay
DIMENSIONS
? x ? x ?
MUSEUM NUMBER
CBS 15348
RECORDED HOLDER
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The museum's own record names a biblical person or place
Named in the record: cyrus · ur
ADART 5, 057
Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · clay
ADART 5, 057
DATE
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
PERIOD
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
FINDSPOT
Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
MEDIUM
clay
DIMENSIONS
? x ? x ?
MUSEUM NUMBER
CBS 11901
RECORDED HOLDER
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
No biblical link recorded
AJSL 16, 066 01
Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Akkadian · clay
AJSL 16, 066 01
DATE
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
CULTURE
Akkadian
PERIOD
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
MEDIUM
clay
DIMENSIONS
? x ? x ?
MUSEUM NUMBER
CBS 01467
RECORDED HOLDER
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
No biblical link recorded
AJSL 16, 066 02
Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Akkadian · clay
AJSL 16, 066 02
DATE
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
CULTURE
Akkadian
PERIOD
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
MEDIUM
clay
DIMENSIONS
? x ? x ?
MUSEUM NUMBER
CBS 01420
RECORDED HOLDER
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
No biblical link recorded
AJSL 16, 066 03
Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Akkadian · clay
AJSL 16, 066 03
DATE
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
CULTURE
Akkadian
PERIOD
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
MEDIUM
clay
DIMENSIONS
? x ? x ?
MUSEUM NUMBER
CBS 01421
RECORDED HOLDER
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
No biblical link recorded
AJSL 16, 066 04
Achaemenid (547-331 BC) · Akkadian · clay
AJSL 16, 066 04
DATE
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
CULTURE
Akkadian
PERIOD
Achaemenid (547-331 BC)
MEDIUM
clay
DIMENSIONS
? x ? x ?
MUSEUM NUMBER
CBS 01427
RECORDED HOLDER
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
No biblical link recorded
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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