PBS 05, 128 (P229443)

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 14006

Period

Provenience

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: P-Ea Obv. model contracts: silver. Rev.: P-Ea with glosses. Rev. very bad (in dry clay).)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: P-Ea Obv. model contracts: silver. Rev.: P-Ea with glosses. Rev. very bad (in dry clay).)
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P229443
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P229443

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	CBS 14006
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	587486
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	CBS.14006
Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (DCCLT)	P229443
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P229443

References

primary: PBS 5, 128

[Poebel1914PBS5] Poebel, Arno. 1914. Historical and Grammatical Texts. Publications of the Babylonian Section 5. University Museum, Pennsylvania.
history: MSL 14, 23 Fd

[Civil1979MSL14] Civil, Miguel. 1979. Ea A = Naqu, Aa A = Naqu, with Their Forerunners and Related Texts. Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon 14.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-06-14 at 22:28:20	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-01 at 15:22:11	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune		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

“PBS 05, 128 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P229443.

PBS 05, 128 artifact entry (No. P229443). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P229443 (Original work published 2003)

PBS 05, 128 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P229443 (Accessed: November 3, 2026).

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	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {PBS 05, 128 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P229443},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P229443},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“PBS 05, 128 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P229443.

PBS 05, 128 artifact entry (No. P229443). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P229443 (Original work published 2003)

PBS 05, 128 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P229443 (Accessed: November 3, 2026).

@misc{2023PBS,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-03]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {PBS 05, 128 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P229443},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P229443},
}

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DA  - 2023/6/14/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P229443
LB  - CDLI:P229443
M1  - 2026/11/3/
TI  - PBS 05, 128 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P229443
ER  -