UM 29-15-628 (P230554)

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

UM 29-15-628

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 Obv. model contract: grain. Rev. metrol.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: Metrological table or list Obv. model contract: grain. Rev. metrol.)
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P230554
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P230554

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

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

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	UM 29-15-628
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	566332
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	UM.29-15-628
Old Babylonian Model Contracts (OBMC)	P230554
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P230554

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

“UM 29-15-628 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230554.

UM 29-15-628 artifact entry (No. P230554). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230554 (Original work published 2003)

UM 29-15-628 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230554 (Accessed: October 26, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“UM 29-15-628 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230554.

UM 29-15-628 artifact entry (No. P230554). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230554 (Original work published 2003)

UM 29-15-628 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230554 (Accessed: October 26, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-26]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P230554},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230554},
}

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M1  - 2026/10/26/
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