CBS 04813 + CBS 06853 (P227962)

Business / Contracts tablet and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Cite

Photo

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 04813 + CBS 06853

Period

Provenience

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract Manual of Sumerian legal forms, grain; (i)7x(ii)8x(iii)10 lines. Either type II or type I.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Has fragments

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract Manual of Sumerian legal forms, grain; (i)7x(ii)8x(iii)10 lines. Either type II or type I.)
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

P227962 leadP227962 lead

CDLI number	P227962
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P227962

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	fragment Fragmented Tablet frag,ctr.part,1 side preserved,ruled,3 cols

Provenance

Provenience
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	CBS 04813 + CBS 06853
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	580839 + 580840
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	CBS.4813 + CBS.6853
Old Babylonian Model Contracts (OBMC)	P227962
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P227962

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-06-14 at 12:21:25	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-01 at 18:47:18	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Novotny, Jamie		Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-19 at 10:11:27	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Veldhuis, Niek	Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts	CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“CBS 04813 + CBS 06853 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P227962.

CBS 04813 + CBS 06853 artifact entry (No. P227962). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P227962 (Original work published 2003)

CBS 04813 + CBS 06853 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P227962 (Accessed: October 29, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-29]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {CBS 04813 + {CBS} 06853 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P227962},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P227962},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“CBS 04813 + CBS 06853 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P227962.

CBS 04813 + CBS 06853 artifact entry (No. P227962). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P227962 (Original work published 2003)

CBS 04813 + CBS 06853 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P227962 (Accessed: October 29, 2026).

@misc{2023CBS,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-29]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {CBS 04813 + {CBS} 06853 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P227962},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P227962},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/6/14/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P227962
LB  - CDLI:P227962
M1  - 2026/10/29/
TI  - CBS 04813 + CBS 06853 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P227962
ER  -