FTP 098 (P010015)

Administrative tablet excavated in Shuruppak (mod. Fara), dated to the ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 07273

Period

ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)

Provenience

Shuruppak (mod. Fara)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Text

tablet
obverse
column 1
  column missing
column 2
  2 lines missing
1'. [x siki?] ma#?-[na]
2'. 2(u@c) ninda
3'. 2(u@c) gug2
4'. 3(asz@c) tu7
  8 lines missing
column 3
1. [lu2-sa10]-gu7
2. [1(u@c)] ninda
3. 1(u@c) gug2
4. 2(u@c) PAP tu7
5. 2(u@c) PAP |GA2xHA|-A
6. UR-UR
7. szesz AN#? [x]
  7 lines missing
column 4
1. 1(u@c) ur-{d}sud3
2. 1(u@c) GAR-SZA3
3. 1(u@c) engar-SZE3-x
4. 1(u@c) NI-NI-zu
  10 lines missing
column 5
1. lu2-ki-inim
2. ku3 sa10-2(asz@c) ma-na
3. 2(ban2@c) sze-ninda
4. 1(u@c) [gug2]
  10 lines missing
reverse
  surface blank

Text content

Genre(s) Administrative
Language(s) Sumerian

Chronology

Period ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)
Accounting Period

Record

Permalink https://cdli.network/entity/P010015

Physical information

Artifact type Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s) Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience Shuruppak (mod. Fara)
Written In
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s) Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number CBS 07273
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn) 582114
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) CBS.7273

References

  • primary: FTP, 98

    [Martin2001FTP] Martin, Harriet P. 2001. The Fara Tablets in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

  • history: OSP 1, p. 1f.

    [Westenholz1975OSP1] Westenholz, Aage. 1975. Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia, Chiefly from Nippur. Part 1: Literary and Lexical Texts and the Earliest Administrative Documents from Nippur. Bibliotheca Mesopotamica, Volume 1. Malibu: Undena Publications.

Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-08-10 at 15:14:01 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2023-01-19 at 09:57:24 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact metadata Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie Approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:14:06 CDLI Transliteration CDLI CDLI Approved View
2001-12-04 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact metadata Englund, Robert K.; Hebenstreit, Laurent CDLI Approved View

Cite this Artifacts

“FTP 098 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 10, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P010015.
FTP 098 artifact entry (No. P010015). (2023, August 10). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P010015 (Original work published 2001)
FTP 098 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P010015 (Accessed: April 23, 2026).
@misc{2023FTP,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-23]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 10},
	title = {FTP 098 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P010015},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P010015},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/10/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P010015
LB  - CDLI:P010015
M1  - 2026/4/23/
TI  - FTP 098 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P010015
ER  -

Cite this Artifacts

“FTP 098 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 10, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P010015.
FTP 098 artifact entry (No. P010015). (2023, August 10). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P010015 (Original work published 2001)
FTP 098 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P010015 (Accessed: April 23, 2026).
@misc{2023FTP,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-23]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 10},
	title = {FTP 098 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P010015},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P010015},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/10/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P010015
LB  - CDLI:P010015
M1  - 2026/4/23/
TI  - FTP 098 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P010015
ER  -
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