N 4567 (P230591)

Business / Contracts tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Cite

Photo

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 4567

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: Model contract Model contracts: silver.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: Model contract Model contracts: silver.)
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period	Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P230591
Permalink	https://cdli.network/entity/P230591

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

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

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	N 4567
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	573201
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	N.4567
Old Babylonian Model Contracts (OBMC)	P230591
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P230591

References

history: MSLF, no. 261 unpub ms

[LiebermanUnpubms] Lieberman, Stephen J. nd. “Manual of Sumerian Legal Forms.”

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	Artifact metadata	Veldhuis, Niek	Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts	CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifacts

“N 4567 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230591.

N 4567 artifact entry (No. P230591). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230591 (Original work published 2003)

N 4567 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230591 (Accessed: April 9, 2026).

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Cite this Artifacts

“N 4567 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230591.

N 4567 artifact entry (No. P230591). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230591 (Original work published 2003)

N 4567 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230591 (Accessed: April 9, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-09]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {N 4567 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P230591},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230591},
}

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DA  - 2023/6/14/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P230591
LB  - CDLI:P230591
M1  - 2026/4/9/
TI  - N 4567 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P230591
ER  -