NATN 307 (P121005)

Legal 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

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 09943

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal

Language(s)

Sumerian

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tablet
obverse
1. [...] sze gur
2. masz2-bi-sze3
3. 1(disz) sze-le-bu-um dumu i3-li2-mi-szar
4. i3-li2-mi-szar-e
5. mu 5(disz)-am3 in-de6
6. nu-da-kar-re-a
reverse
1. mu lugal-bi in-pa3
2. igi tu-ra-am-i3-li2-sze3
3. igi hu-bi2-dam-sze3
4. igi ur-szu-mah-sze3
5. igi lu2-{d}szul-gi-sze3
6. iti du6-ku3
7. mu# e2 {d}szara2 umma{ki} ba-du3

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Consult word list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: NATN, 307

    [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.

  • citation: Steinkeller, Security for debt (2001), p. 57 no. 7

    [Steinkeller2001security] Steinkeller, Piotr. 2001. “The Ur III Period.” In Security for Debt in Ancient Near Eastern Law, edited by Raymond Westbrook and Richard Jasnow, 9:47–62. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Leiden: Brill.

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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.09.07.00
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-23 at 10:14:41 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-01-19 at 09:57:24 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2011-07-22 at 13:47:50 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:24:32 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:22:53 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact

“NATN 307 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121005.
NATN 307 artifact entry (No. P121005). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121005 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 307 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121005 (Accessed: August 28, 2025).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-08-28]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 307 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121005},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121005},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/23/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P121005
LB  - CDLI:P121005
M1  - 2025/8/28/
TI  - NATN 307 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P121005
ER  - 

Cite this Artifact

“NATN 307 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121005.
NATN 307 artifact entry (No. P121005). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121005 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 307 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121005 (Accessed: August 28, 2025).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-08-28]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 307 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121005},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121005},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/23/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P121005
LB  - CDLI:P121005
M1  - 2025/8/28/
TI  - NATN 307 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P121005
ER  - 
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