MVN 15, 001 (P118281)

Plan or Drawing tablet excavated in Umma (mod. Tell Jokha), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

UM 72-25-001

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Scholarly or scientific > Plan or Drawing (field plan (drawing) Field plan of a-sza3 gu4-suhubx)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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tablet
obverse
  (field plan: not transliterated)
reverse
1. 3(bur3) GAN2 bar
2. 2(asz) 2(ban2) ki-zi
3. 7(bur3) 1(esze3) GAN2 sza3-te
4. szunigin 1(bur'u) 4(iku) GAN2
5. a-sza3 gu4-suhub2

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Consult word list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: MVN 15, 1

    [Owen1991MVN15] Owen, David I. 1991. Neo-Sumerian Texts from American Collections. Materiali per Il Vocabolario Neosumerico 15. Roma: Multigrafica Editrice.

    Map of the field, Gusuhub.

  • history: JCS 24 (pp. 137-173), 149 01

    [Owen1972JCS24AmericanColl] Owen, David I. 1972. “Neo-Sumerian Texts from American Collections, I.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 24 (4): 137–73. https://doi.org/10.2307/1359636.

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  • Museum No.: UM 72-25-001
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  • Provenience: Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-01-19 at 09:57:24 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2017-03-03 at 09:53:56 Englund, Robert K. Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2011-07-22 at 13:43:31 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:21:43 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:21:45 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“MVN 15, 001 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 1, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P118281.
MVN 15, 001 artifact entry (No. P118281). (2023, February 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P118281 (Original work published 2001)
MVN 15, 001 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P118281 (Accessed: May 9, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-09]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {feb 1},
	title = {MVN 15, 001 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P118281},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P118281},
}


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