MVN 15, 158 (P118438)

Administrative tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Rare Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York, USA

Metadata / catalogue

Flat catalogue

As CSV As TSV

Expanded catalogue

As JSON

Linked catalogue

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Text / annotations

Text data

As ATF As JTF

Linked annotations

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Related publications

As CSV As BibTeX

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

As CSV
Metadata history Transliteration history

Museum Collection(s)

Rare Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York, USA

Museum Number

RMC 172

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. 2(asz) sze gur numun mur-gu4
2. ki nam-ha-ni-ta
3. ib2-tak4
4. ki za-la-gi4
reverse
  blank space
1. mu [{d}amar]-{d}suen [lugal-e] ur-bi2-lum#{ki} mu-hul
seal 1
1. [za]-la-gi4
2. [dam]-gar3
3. [dumu]

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
  • Measurements (mm):
  • Weight:
  • Artifact Preservation:
  • Condition Description:
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.:
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

  • primary: MVN 15, 158

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

    Account recording the remainder of barley received by za-la-gi4, the merchant (so according to seal fragment).

  • history: CUSAS 15, 172

    [Gadotti2011CUSAS15] Gadotti, Alhena, and Marcel Sigrist. 2011. Cuneiform Texts in the Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University. Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology (CUSAS), Volume 15. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: RMC 172
  • Accession No.:

  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar) [uncertain]
  • Elevation:
  • Stratigraphic Level:
  • Excavation No:
  • Findspot Square:
  • Findspot Comments:

  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Amar-Suen.02.00.00
  • Alternative Years:
  • Date Comments:
  • Accounting Period:

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2011-07-22 at 13:43:47 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:21:54 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2009-06-03 at 10:26:54 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:21:52 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

This artifact is impressed by the following seal(s):

Seal Provenience Period Date
CDLI Seals 005522 (composite) (P458232) Nippur (mod. Nuffar) Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes: -
Cite this Artifact
“MVN 15, 158 Artifact Entry.” 2001. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 20, 2001. https://cdli.earth/P118438.
MVN 15, 158 artifact entry (No. P118438). (2001, December 20). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P118438
MVN 15, 158 artifact entry (2001) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P118438 (Accessed: July 11, 2025).
@misc{2001MVN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-07-11]},
	year = {2001},
	month = {dec 20},
	title = {MVN 15, 158 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P118438},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P118438},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2001/12/20/
PY  - 2001
ID  - P118438
LB  - CDLI:P118438
M1  - 2025/7/11/
TI  - MVN 15, 158 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P118438
ER  -
This website uses essential cookies that are necessary for it to work properly. These cookies are enabled by default.