diff --git a/src/fragmentarium/domain/FragmentDtos.ts b/src/fragmentarium/domain/FragmentDtos.ts
index 58ad7de72..9b98ccce8 100644
--- a/src/fragmentarium/domain/FragmentDtos.ts
+++ b/src/fragmentarium/domain/FragmentDtos.ts
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ export type ExternalNumbers = {
 
 export default interface FragmentDto {
   museumNumber: MuseumNumber
-  accession: MuseumNumber
+  accession: string
   editedInOraccProject: string
   publication: string
   description: string
diff --git a/src/fragmentarium/infrastructure/FragmentRepository.test.ts b/src/fragmentarium/infrastructure/FragmentRepository.test.ts
index c58a8996e..5863c8e1e 100644
--- a/src/fragmentarium/infrastructure/FragmentRepository.test.ts
+++ b/src/fragmentarium/infrastructure/FragmentRepository.test.ts
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ import { QueryResult } from 'query/QueryResult'
 import { FragmentQuery } from 'query/FragmentQuery'
 import { queryItemFactory } from 'test-support/query-item-factory'
 import { museumNumberToString } from 'fragmentarium/domain/MuseumNumber'
-import { Genre, Genres } from 'fragmentarium/domain/Genres'
-import { mesopotamianDateFactory } from 'test-support/date-fixtures'
-import { archaeologyFactory } from 'test-support/fragment-fixtures'
 
 const apiClient = {
   fetchJson: jest.fn(),
@@ -33,12 +30,6 @@ const folio = new Folio({ name: 'MJG', number: 'K1' })
 const word = 'šim'
 const introduction = 'Introduction'
 const lemmas = 'foo I+bar II'
-const genres: Genre[] = [
-  new Genre(['ARCHIVE', 'Letter'], false),
-  new Genre(['CANONICAL', 'Divination'], true),
-]
-const mesopotamianDate = mesopotamianDateFactory.build()
-const archaeology = archaeologyFactory.build()
 const museumNumber = { prefix: 'A', number: '7', suffix: '' }
 const queryResult: QueryResult = {
   items: [
@@ -323,56 +314,7 @@ const testData: TestData<FragmentRepository>[] = [
     fragment,
     [
       `/fragments/${encodeURIComponent(fragmentId)}/introduction`,
-      { introduction },
-    ],
-    Promise.resolve(fragmentDto)
-  ),
-  new TestData(
-    'updateGenres',
-    [fragmentId, new Genres(genres)],
-    apiClient.postJson,
-    fragment,
-    [`/fragments/${encodeURIComponent(fragmentId)}/genres`, { genres }],
-    Promise.resolve(fragmentDto)
-  ),
-  new TestData(
-    'updateDate',
-    [fragmentId, mesopotamianDate],
-    apiClient.postJson,
-    fragment,
-    [
-      `/fragments/${encodeURIComponent(fragmentId)}/date`,
-      { date: mesopotamianDate },
-    ],
-    Promise.resolve(fragmentDto)
-  ),
-  new TestData(
-    'updateDatesInText',
-    [fragmentId, [mesopotamianDate]],
-    apiClient.postJson,
-    fragment,
-    [
-      `/fragments/${encodeURIComponent(fragmentId)}/dates_in_text`,
-      { datesInText: [mesopotamianDate] },
-    ],
-    Promise.resolve(fragmentDto)
-  ),
-  new TestData(
-    'updateNotes',
-    [fragmentId, notes],
-    apiClient.postJson,
-    fragment,
-    [`/fragments/${encodeURIComponent(fragmentId)}/notes`, { notes }],
-    Promise.resolve(fragmentDto)
-  ),
-  new TestData(
-    'updateArchaeology',
-    [fragmentId, archaeology],
-    apiClient.postJson,
-    fragment,
-    [
-      `/fragments/${encodeURIComponent(fragmentId)}/archaeology`,
-      { archaeology },
+      { introduction: introduction },
     ],
     Promise.resolve(fragmentDto)
   ),
diff --git a/src/fragmentarium/infrastructure/FragmentRepository.ts b/src/fragmentarium/infrastructure/FragmentRepository.ts
index 4f2bc018b..c6676ff33 100644
--- a/src/fragmentarium/infrastructure/FragmentRepository.ts
+++ b/src/fragmentarium/infrastructure/FragmentRepository.ts
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ function createFragment(dto: FragmentDto): Fragment {
   return Fragment.create({
     ...dto,
     number: museumNumberToString(dto.museumNumber),
-    accession: museumNumberToString(dto.accession),
     museum: Museum.of(dto.museum),
     joins: createJoins(dto.joins),
     measures: {
diff --git a/src/fragmentarium/ui/SearchForm.tsx b/src/fragmentarium/ui/SearchForm.tsx
index 7cad69ca0..9f16749bf 100644
--- a/src/fragmentarium/ui/SearchForm.tsx
+++ b/src/fragmentarium/ui/SearchForm.tsx
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ class SearchForm extends Component<Props, State> {
                 type="text"
                 name="number"
                 value={this.state.number || ''}
-                placeholder="Museum, accession, CDLI, or ecavation number"
+                placeholder="Museum, accession, or CDLI number"
                 aria-label="Number"
                 onChange={(
                   event: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLTextAreaElement>
diff --git a/src/fragmentarium/ui/search/__snapshots__/FragmentariumSearch.test.tsx.snap b/src/fragmentarium/ui/search/__snapshots__/FragmentariumSearch.test.tsx.snap
index 7529c509b..a2d8d34c0 100644
--- a/src/fragmentarium/ui/search/__snapshots__/FragmentariumSearch.test.tsx.snap
+++ b/src/fragmentarium/ui/search/__snapshots__/FragmentariumSearch.test.tsx.snap
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ exports[`Searching fragments by transliteration Displays corpus results when cli
                   class="form-control"
                   id="number"
                   name="number"
-                  placeholder="Museum, accession, CDLI, or ecavation number"
+                  placeholder="Museum, accession, or CDLI number"
                   type="text"
                   value=""
                 />
diff --git a/src/test-support/fragment-fixtures.ts b/src/test-support/fragment-fixtures.ts
index 4ec4dab54..5a133e1b8 100644
--- a/src/test-support/fragment-fixtures.ts
+++ b/src/test-support/fragment-fixtures.ts
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ export const fragmentFactory = Factory.define<Fragment>(
     const museumNumber = `${chance.word()}.${sequence}`
     return new Fragment(
       museumNumber,
-      `${chance.word()}.${sequence}`,
+      chance.word(),
       chance.sentence({ words: 4 }),
       associations.joins ?? [
         [
diff --git a/src/test-support/test-fragment.ts b/src/test-support/test-fragment.ts
index 4aaf82c1a..78dabd6d2 100644
--- a/src/test-support/test-fragment.ts
+++ b/src/test-support/test-fragment.ts
@@ -321,11 +321,7 @@ export const fragmentDto: FragmentDto = {
     number: 'Fragment',
     suffix: '',
   },
-  accession: {
-    prefix: 'A',
-    number: '38',
-    suffix: 'b',
-  },
+  accession: '',
   publication: 'electronic Babylonian Library',
   description: 'A fragment to be used when testing the eBL application',
   joins: [
@@ -427,7 +423,7 @@ export const fragmentDto: FragmentDto = {
 
 export const fragment = new Fragment(
   'Test.Fragment',
-  'A.38.b',
+  '',
   'electronic Babylonian Library',
   [
     [