NATN 060 (P120758)

Administrative tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 08159bis

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Text

tablet
obverse
1. 2(gesz2) 1(u) 4(asz) 2(barig) sze gur lugal
2. dal{al}-ba-na-ta
3. giri3 he2-du-du
4. ka idigna-ta
5. kiszib3# lugal-inim-gi-na-ka
6. ib2-ra
reverse
1. he2-du-du
2. en8-bi tar-re-dam
  blank space
3. iti ezem-me-ki-gal2
4. mu a-ra2 2(disz)-kam kar2-har{ki} ba-hul

Text content

Genre(s) Administrative
Language(s) Sumerian

Chronology

Period Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Accounting Period

Record

Permalink https://cdli.network/entity/P120758

Physical information

Artifact type Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s) Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Written In
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s) Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number CBS 08159bis
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource Identifiers
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS) 024937
Penn Museum (Penn) 582988
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) CBS.8159bis

References

  • primary: NATN, 60

    [Owen1982NATN] Owen, David I. 1982. Neo-Sumerian Archival Texts Primarily from Nippur in the University Museum, the Oriental Institute and the Iraq Museum (NATN). Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns.

  • history: RA 057 (pp. 93-97), 094 01

    [FishLambert1963RA57] Fish, Thomas, and Maurice Lambert. 1963. “« Vérification » Dans La Bureaucratie Sumérienne.” Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archéologie Orientale 57: 93–97.

    UP 9159 presumably error for [CBS] 8159

  • history: Widell, UCU, 2)

    [Widell2003] Widell, Magnus. 2003. The Administrative and Economic Ur III Texts from the City of Ur. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.

Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-23 at 10:14:41 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2023-01-19 at 09:57:24 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact metadata Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie Approved View
2011-07-22 at 13:47:25 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:24:15 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2009-06-03 at 10:29:44 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:22:48 CDLI Transliteration CDLI CDLI Approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact metadata CDLI CDLI Approved View

Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 060 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P120758.
NATN 060 artifact entry (No. P120758). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P120758 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 060 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P120758 (Accessed: April 23, 2026).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-23]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 060 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P120758},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P120758},
}


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Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 060 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P120758.
NATN 060 artifact entry (No. P120758). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P120758 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 060 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P120758 (Accessed: April 23, 2026).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-23]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 060 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P120758},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P120758},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/23/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P120758
LB  - CDLI:P120758
M1  - 2026/4/23/
TI  - NATN 060 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P120758
ER  -
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