NATN 583 (P121281)

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

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

UM 29-13-779

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (Receipt for barley; 5x1 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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tablet
obverse
1. 3(u) 2(barig) 3(ban2) sze gur
2. ur5-ra {d}nin-urta
3. ki lugal-he2-gal2-la#
4. nam-ha-ni ugula
5. szu ba-ti
reverse
1. iti udru[{duru5}]
  rest broken

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Consult word list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: NATN, 583

    [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.

    (pub as 29-13-773 in index and 29-13-775 on copy)


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  • Museum No.: UM 29-13-779
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-10-30 at 09:54:44 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2024-07-23 at 10:14:41 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 13:48:13 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:24:49 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:22:59 CDLI Transliteration CDLI CDLI Approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact metadata CDLI CDLI Approved View

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Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 583 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 30, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121281.
NATN 583 artifact entry (No. P121281). (2024, October 30). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121281 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 583 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121281 (Accessed: February 28, 2026).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-28]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 30},
	title = {NATN 583 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121281},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121281},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 583 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 30, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121281.
NATN 583 artifact entry (No. P121281). (2024, October 30). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121281 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 583 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121281 (Accessed: February 28, 2026).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-28]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 30},
	title = {NATN 583 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121281},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121281},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/10/30/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P121281
LB  - CDLI:P121281
M1  - 2026/2/28/
TI  - NATN 583 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P121281
ER  - 
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