NABU 1994/091, CBS 07335 (P229720)

Business / Contracts tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Cite

Photo

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 07335 + N 5955 + N 6084

Period

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: Metrological table or list Very little of reverse legible: sila//3 (metrol.). The model contract is the sale of a temple office. Rev. has two hand impressions. Obverse model contracts: inheritance.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Has fragments

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: Metrological table or list Very little of reverse legible: sila//3 (metrol.). The model contract is the sale of a temple office. Rev. has two hand impressions. Obverse model contracts: inheritance.)
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

P229720 leadP229720 lead

CDLI number	P229720 P279916 (retired) P279990 (retired)
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P229720

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	Fragmented

Provenance

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

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	CBS 07335 + N 5955 + N 6084
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	582834 + 582835 + 582836
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	CBS.7335 + N.5955 + N.6084
Old Babylonian Model Contracts (OBMC)	P229720
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P229720

References

primary: NABU 1994/91, CBS 07335

[Nemet-NejatNABU1994/91] Nemet-Nejat, Karen R. 1994. “A Sealed Mathematical Tablet.” NABU, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires.

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 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

“NABU 1994/091, CBS 07335 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P229720.

NABU 1994/091, CBS 07335 artifact entry (No. P229720). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P229720 (Original work published 2003)

NABU 1994/091, CBS 07335 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P229720 (Accessed: October 28, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“NABU 1994/091, CBS 07335 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P229720.

NABU 1994/091, CBS 07335 artifact entry (No. P229720). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P229720 (Original work published 2003)

NABU 1994/091, CBS 07335 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P229720 (Accessed: October 28, 2026).

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	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {NABU 1994/091, {CBS} 07335 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P229720},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P229720},
}

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