PBS 05, 095 (P269678)

Official or display tablet dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 15122

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

-

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Official or display (year-name promulgation (Obv)6x(Rev)0 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Text

tablet
obverse
1. mu# ha#-mu-ra-pi2 lugal
 en: Year when Hammurapi, the king,
2. du11-ga an {d}en-lil2-bi-ta
 en: by the spoken words of An and Enlil,
3. nam-ku3-zu {d}marduk-ke4 mu#-un-na-an-szum2:ma-a
 en: in the wisdom that Marduk gave him,
4. esz3#-nun#-na{ki} a gal-gal-la mu-un-gul-la#
 en: Ešnunna with great waters struck down,
5. x-x-x{ki} ib2-ta-zi# [x]
 en: ... .
  single ruling
  line blank
reverse
  space blank

Text content

Genre(s) Official or display (year-name promulgation (Obv)6x(Rev)0 lines)
Language(s) Sumerian

Chronology

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

Record

LOD URI https://cdli.network/entity/P269678

Physical information

Artifact type Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s) Clay
Preservation
le. cnrs. &lo. rt. cnr. broken, rev. blank

Provenance

Provenience
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s) Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number CBS 15122
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn) 588136
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) CBS.15122

References

  • primary: PBS 5, 095

    [Poebel1914PBS5] Poebel, Arno. 1914. Historical and Grammatical Texts. Publications of the Babylonian Section 5. University Museum, Pennsylvania.

  • history: JCS 68 (pp. 15-43), 026

    [Rutz2016JCS68] Rutz, Matthew T., and Piotr Michalowski. 2016. “The Flooding of Ešnunna, the Fall of Mari: Hammurabi’s Deeds in Babylonian Literature and History.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 68: 15–43. https://doi.org/10.5615/jcunestud.68.2016.0015.

Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-09-07 at 12:16:29 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2023-01-21 at 07:48:15 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact metadata Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie Approved View
2018-06-21 at 12:40:34 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Transliteration Pagé-Perron, Émilie CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2016-07-13 at 19:23:41 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2005-04-25 at 00:00:00 CDLI, CDLI Artifact metadata Englund, Robert K.; Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Frayne, Douglas R.; Peterson, Jeremiah; Veldhuis, Niek; Zimmermann, Lynn-Salammbô Penn Museum CDLI, CDLI Approved View

Cite this Artifact

“PBS 05, 095 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 7, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P269678.
PBS 05, 095 artifact entry (No. P269678). (2024, September 7). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P269678 (Original work published 2005)
PBS 05, 095 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P269678 (Accessed: October 17, 2026).
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	year = {2024},
	month = {sep 7},
	title = {PBS 05, 095 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P269678},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P269678},
}


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Cite this Artifact

“PBS 05, 095 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 7, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P269678.
PBS 05, 095 artifact entry (No. P269678). (2024, September 7). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P269678 (Original work published 2005)
PBS 05, 095 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P269678 (Accessed: October 17, 2026).
@misc{2024PBS,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-17]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {sep 7},
	title = {PBS 05, 095 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P269678},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P269678},
}


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PY  - 2024
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LB  - CDLI:P269678
M1  - 2026/10/17/
TI  - PBS 05, 095 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P269678
ER  -
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