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The British Museum [BM]
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
UK - England
TM number | Collection | Material | Language | Century | Publication |
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TM 784093 | London, British Museum 1855-12-05: 6 | stone | Akkadian | BC07 | Royal inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian period 4 Esarhaddon 1027 |
TM 784956 | London, British Museum 1855-12-05: 8 | stone | Akkadian | BC07 | Royal inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian period 5.1 Ashurbanipal 068 ex. 18* |
TM 784940 | London, British Museum 1855-12-05: 9 | stone | Akkadian | BC07 | Royal inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian period 5.1 Ashurbanipal 068 ex. 06 |
TM 154581 | London, British Museum 1856,0701.5025 | stone (sandstone) | Latin | AD01 - AD02 | RIB 1 88 |
TM 154559 | London, British Museum 1856,0701.5026 | stone (limestone) | Latin | AD02 | RIB 1 66 |
TM 785651 | London, British Museum 1856-09-09: 138 | clay | Akkadian | BC08 - BC07 | Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 3.2 Sennacherib 214 ex. 01 |
TM 785652 | London, British Museum 1856-09-09: 147 + 1856-09-09: 149 | clay | Akkadian | BC08 - BC07 | Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 3.2 Sennacherib 214 ex. 02 |
TM 570662 | London, British Museum 1858,0819.2 | stone (marble) | Latin | BC01 | CIL VI.1 2170 |
TM 168513 | London, British Museum 1861-2-9: 1 | stone | Old Irish | AD05 - AD08 | Okasha, Corpus of early christian inscribed stones of South-West Britain 13 (iii - iv) |
TM 738922 | London, British Museum 1861.11-27-30 | stone (marble) | Greek | AD02 | Delattre / Lionetto (ed.), La Muse de l'éphémère p. 329-330 |
TM 154743 | London, British Museum 1862,0423.1 | stone | Latin | AD01 - AD05 | RIB 1 250 |
TM 647741 | London, British Museum 1862-08-29: 1 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 100 (see link below) |
TM 647644 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 1 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 86 (see link below) |
TM 647720 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 10 [a?] | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 98 (see link below) |
TM 647730 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 10 [b?] | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 99 (see link below) |
TM 647673 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 11 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 91 (see link below) |
TM 647674 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 12 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 92 (see link below) |
TM 647768 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 13 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 103 (see link below) |
TM 647675 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 14 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 93 (see link below) |
TM 647773 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 15 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 104 (see link below) |
TM 647762 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 16 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 102 (see link below) |
TM 647698 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 17 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 96 (see link below) |
TM 647812 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 19 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 111 (see link below) |
TM 647651 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 2 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 87 (see link below) |
TM 647793 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 20 [a?] | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 109 (see link below) |
TM 647802 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 20 [b?] | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 110 (see link below) |
TM 647792 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 21 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 108 (see link below) |
TM 647781 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 22 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 105 (see link below) |
TM 647784 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 23 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 106 (see link below) |
TM 647785 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 24 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 107 (see link below) |
TM 647820 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 25 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 112 (see link below) |
TM 647752 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 26 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 101 (see link below) |
TM 650924 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 27 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Ḥaḍramitic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 205 (see link below) |
TM 647661 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 3 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 88 (see link below) |
TM 647668 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 4 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 89 (see link below) |
TM 647672 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 5 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 90 (see link below) |
TM 647709 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 7 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 97 (see link below) |
TM 647678 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 8 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 94 (see link below) |
TM 647687 | London, British Museum 1862-10-28: 9 | metal (bronze) | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 95 (see link below) |
TM 650925 | London, British Museum 1863-2-16: 1 | stone | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 206 (see link below) |
TM 647551 | London, British Museum 1863-2-16: 2 | stone | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 145 (see link below) |
TM 647516 | London, British Museum 1863-2-16: 3 | stone | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 136 (see link below) |
TM 647509 | London, British Museum 1863-2-16: 4 | stone | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 134 (see link below) |
TM 647401 | London, British Museum 1863-2-16: 5 | stone | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 121 (see link below) |
TM 647508 | London, British Museum 1863-2-16: 6 | stone | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 133 (see link below) |
TM 647449 | London, British Museum 1863-2-24: 1 | stone | Ancient South Arabian (Sabaic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 126 (see link below) |
TM 650923 | London, British Museum 1863-2-5: 1 | stone | Ancient South Arabian (Qatabanic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 204 (see link below) |
TM 650926 | London, British Museum 1863-2-5: 2 | stone | Ancient South Arabian (Qatabanic dialect) | BC08 - AD08 | DASI 207 (see link below) |
TM 154745 | London, British Museum 1866,1208.1 | stone | Latin | AD01 - AD05 | RIB 1 252 |
TM 154746 | London, British Museum 1866,1208.2 | stone (limestone) | Latin | AD01 - AD05 | RIB 1 253 |
[18.05.06]
- Cat., number 1076 [check]
- Coins, number 1989.10.29
- EA [= Egyptian Antiquities], numbers from 19 till 203773
- EA, without number 09 till 85 [numbering from Kaplony-Heckel, or actually from the BM?]
- Eg. Dept., numbers such as 1857-1-8: 9 [old registration numbers: year, month, day, serial number]
- Greek and Roman Dept., number 1906.10-20.2 [wood]
- Salt, number 955, 6
- Vindolanda, numbers such as 85.137
Papyri, and some linen and leather in AES are glazed between two sheets of glass; ostraca, tablets, most linen and leather, and incantation bowls are housed in drawer cabinets.
Most texts are inventoried and all records (with images, where they exist) are now available via the Museum's Collections on-line data base : http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx
For a checklist of pharaonic papyri in hieroglyphic and hieratic script, see R. Parkinson and S. Quirke, Papyrus (1995), 91-94. Editions of demotic and Coptic texts include P.Brit.Mus. I-V, P.Brit.Mus.Reich, O.BritMus.Copt. I and II; most of O.Crum and P.Sarga; and some of P.Mon.Apoll., O.CrumST, O.CrumVC. For Aramaic, Mandaic and Pahlavi texts, see J. B. Segal, Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (2000) and D. Weber, Ostraca, Papyri und Pergamente: Textband, Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum 3.4-5 (1992)
As a result of the British Library Act 1972, most Greek papyri and ostraca and Coptic papyri went to the British Library Department of Manuscripts (Greek) and Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (Coptic). Coptic papyri in the British Museum also became the property of the British Library Board, whereas Coptic (ans some Greek) ostraca are still kept in the Ancient Egypt and Sudan Department of the British Museum.The British Museum collections contain c. 3000 frames of papyri, 8000 ostraca, and 150 incantation bowls. The great majority of these objects, and hundreds of inscribed tablets, pieces of linen and leather are in the Ancient Egypt and Sudan Department (AES). Almost all texts in this collection are written in Egyptian scripts (papyri: c. 700 in hieroglyphic script; 1275 in hieratic script; 700 in demotic script and 230 in Coptic; ostraca: c. 70 in hieroglyphic script; 835 in hieratic, 2595 in demotic; and 4040 in Coptic). Greek texts are limited to 12 papyri and 67 Greek texts on ostraca appear in association with demotic or Coptic documents. The Department of the Middle East contains over 200 ostraca (191 Pahlavi, 17 Hebrew and 3 Aramaic) and 150 incantation bowls from Mesopotamia bearing inked inscriptions (in Jewish Aramaic, Syriac, Mandaic, Pahlavi, Arabic and pseudo-script). A handful of ostraca are in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (6 Greek, 2 Latin).
The Michaelides collection : Funerary linen items bearing inscriptions in abnormal hieratic, demotic an hieroglyphic scripts, but also in Greek and Arabic, were acquired by the Department of Egyptian Antiquities (now Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan), cf. E.Vassilika, Museum Acquisitions 1991, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 79 (1993), pp.238-239 nos. 24, 25, 37 and 46; other Michaelides items are found ibidem sub nos.14, 26 and 40. The Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities (now Department of Middle East) acquired Michaelides items bearing Aramaic inscriptions, including bowls and mummy tickets (information due to B.Porten).