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UM 55-21-333 (P230711)

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

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

UM 55-21-333

Period

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract Model contracts: domestic; rev. P-Izi? (not in MSL 13).)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Collections

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract Model contracts: domestic; rev. P-Izi? (not in MSL 13).)
Language(s): Sumerian

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Identifiers

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Museum No.: UM 55-21-333
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Provenience

Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Excavation No: 3N-T0482
Findspot Square:
Findspot Comments:
Nippur, TA 205 XI 2

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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-06-14 at 22:28:20	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-06-01 at 15:26:27	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune		Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-01-19 at 10:11:27	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Veldhuis, Niek	Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts	CDLI	approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

Penn Museum (567903) (567903)
Electronic Babylonian Library (UM.55-21-333) (UM.55-21-333)
Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (P230711) (P230711)
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P230711) (P230711)

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Cite this Artifact

“UM 55-21-333 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230711.

UM 55-21-333 artifact entry (No. P230711). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230711 (Original work published 2003)

UM 55-21-333 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230711 (Accessed: January 18, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230711},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“UM 55-21-333 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230711.

UM 55-21-333 artifact entry (No. P230711). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230711 (Original work published 2003)

UM 55-21-333 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230711 (Accessed: January 18, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-18]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {UM 55-21-333 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P230711},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230711},
}

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M1  - 2026/1/18/
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