BE 03/1, 019 (P105572)

Administrative tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 10932

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (Loan of silver, value received; (Obv)7x(Rev)5 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Text

tablet
obverse
1. [n] gin2# ku3-babbar
2. [ki ur]-{d}nusku-ta
3. a#-a-na-tum-e
4. szu ba-ti
5. ma-at-i3-li2
6. mu 4(disz)-am3
7. DU-de3
reverse
1. a2-ni-sze3
2. su-su-de3
3. mu lugal [...]-x-esz2
4. a2 [...]
5. ur-[...]
  n lines broken
6'. [mu ...] ba-hul

Text content

Genre(s) Administrative (Loan of silver, value received; (Obv)7x(Rev)5 lines)
Language(s) Sumerian

Chronology

Period Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Accounting Period

Record

Permalink https://cdli.network/entity/P105572

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 CBS 10932
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource Identifiers
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS) 001688
Penn Museum (Penn) 585079
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) CBS.10932

References

  • primary: BE 3/1, 19

    [Myhrman1910BE3/1] Myhrman, David W. 1910. Sumerian Administrative Documents, Dated in the Reigns of the Kings of the Second Dynasty of Ur, from the Temple Archives of Nippur, Preserved in Philadelphia. The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A: Cuneiform Texts, Volume 3, Part 1. Philadelphia: Department of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania.

  • citation: Steinkeller, Security for debt (2001), p. 57-58 no. 8

    [Steinkeller2001security] Steinkeller, Piotr. 2001. “The Ur III Period.” In Security for Debt in Ancient Near Eastern Law, edited by Raymond Westbrook and Richard Jasnow, 9:47–62. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Leiden: Brill.

Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
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
2011-07-22 at 13:24:40 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:08:46 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:16:53 CDLI Transliteration CDLI CDLI Approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact metadata CDLI CDLI Approved View

Cite this Artifacts

“BE 03/1, 019 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 1, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P105572.
BE 03/1, 019 artifact entry (No. P105572). (2023, February 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P105572 (Original work published 2001)
BE 03/1, 019 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P105572 (Accessed: April 25, 2026).
@misc{2023BE,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-25]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {feb 1},
	title = {BE 03/1, 019 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P105572},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P105572},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/2/1/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P105572
LB  - CDLI:P105572
M1  - 2026/4/25/
TI  - BE 03/1, 019 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P105572
ER  -

Cite this Artifacts

“BE 03/1, 019 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 1, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P105572.
BE 03/1, 019 artifact entry (No. P105572). (2023, February 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P105572 (Original work published 2001)
BE 03/1, 019 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P105572 (Accessed: April 25, 2026).
@misc{2023BE,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-25]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {feb 1},
	title = {BE 03/1, 019 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P105572},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P105572},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/2/1/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P105572
LB  - CDLI:P105572
M1  - 2026/4/25/
TI  - BE 03/1, 019 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P105572
ER  -
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