JCS 52, 090 (P279386)

Literary tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Cite

Photo

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 4529

Period

Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Literary (Hymn Business; 6 lines)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Literary (Hymn Business; 6 lines)
Language(s)	Akkadian

Chronology

Period	Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P279386
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P279386

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	fragment obv destroyed, obv trans rev

Provenance

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

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	N 4529
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	573166
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	N.4529
Corpus of Kassite Sumerian Texts (CKST)	P279386
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P279386

References

primary: JCS 52 (pp. 67-94), 090

[Veldhuis2000JCS52] Veldhuis, Niek. 2000. “Kassite Exercises: Literary and Lexical Extracts.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 52 (1): 67–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/1359687.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-06-17 at 19:03:24	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-06-15 at 20:22:28	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-01 at 09:44:24	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune		Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
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
2005-10-24 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Peterson, Jeremiah	Penn Museum	CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“JCS 52, 090 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 17, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P279386.

JCS 52, 090 artifact entry (No. P279386). (2024, June 17). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P279386 (Original work published 2005)

JCS 52, 090 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P279386 (Accessed: October 29, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“JCS 52, 090 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 17, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P279386.

JCS 52, 090 artifact entry (No. P279386). (2024, June 17). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P279386 (Original work published 2005)

JCS 52, 090 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P279386 (Accessed: October 29, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-29]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jun 17},
	title = {JCS 52, 090 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P279386},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P279386},
}

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DA  - 2024/6/17/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P279386
LB  - CDLI:P279386
M1  - 2026/10/29/
TI  - JCS 52, 090 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P279386
ER  -