NATN 490 (P121188)

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

Lineart

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 13802

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

Text

tablet
obverse
  beginning broken
1'. [...] ki
2'. [...] HI 2(disz)
3'. [...] ma-na
4'. [...] ku3-babbar
5'. [...] szuszin{ki}
6'. [...] tab-ba-ni-sze3
7'. [...] x-nam-ta e3-de3
8'. [mu] lugal in-pa3
9'. [...] lu-gi-im
reverse
  broken
seal 1
  (not given)

Text content

Genre(s) Legal
Language(s) Sumerian

Chronology

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

Seals

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

Seal Seal Number Provenience Period Date
dummy composite seal for unidentified seals (P533185) S999999 - -

Record

Permalink https://cdli.network/entity/P121188

Physical information

envelope

Artifact type Envelope
envelope
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 13802
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource Identifiers
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS) 025364
Penn Museum (Penn) 588440
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) CBS.13802

References

  • primary: NATN, 490

    [Owen1982NATN] Owen, David I. 1982. Neo-Sumerian Archival Texts Primarily from Nippur in the University Museum, the Oriental Institute and the Iraq Museum (NATN). Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns.

  • history: Hattori diss., p. 310 (seal)

    [Hattori2002diss] Hattori, Atsuko. 2002. “Texts and Impressions: A Holistic Approach to Ur III Cuneiform Tablets from the University of Pennsylvania Expeditions to Nippur.” Phdthesis, University of Pennsylvania.

Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-23 at 10:14:41 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2024-06-12 at 09:25:16 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other 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
2011-07-22 at 13:48:07 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:24:44 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:22:57 CDLI Transliteration CDLI CDLI Approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact metadata CDLI CDLI Approved View

Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 490 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121188.
NATN 490 artifact entry (No. P121188). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121188 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 490 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121188 (Accessed: April 10, 2026).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-10]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 490 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121188},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121188},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/23/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P121188
LB  - CDLI:P121188
M1  - 2026/4/10/
TI  - NATN 490 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P121188
ER  -

Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 490 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121188.
NATN 490 artifact entry (No. P121188). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121188 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 490 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121188 (Accessed: April 10, 2026).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-10]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 490 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121188},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121188},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/23/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P121188
LB  - CDLI:P121188
M1  - 2026/4/10/
TI  - NATN 490 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P121188
ER  -
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