NATN 636 (P121334)

Administrative tablet & 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

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

UM 29-15-769

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (Receipt of silver loan; seals; 5x5 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. 1/3(disz) ma#-na ku3-[babbar?]
2. ki i3-li2-li2-ta#
3. lu2-{d}en-lil2-la2
4. szu ba-an-ti
5. iti du6-ku3#-ga
reverse
1. szum2-mu-dam
2. mu lugal in-pa3
3. mu en eridu{ki} ba-hun#
seal 1
column 1
1. [{d}amar]-{d}suen
2. nita# kal-ga#
3. lugal-an-ub#?-da#?-limmu-<ba>?
column 2
1. lu2-{d}en-lil2#-la2#?
2. dumu [...]
3. ARAD2-zu#
  (following Hattori)

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 & envelope
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: NATN, 636

    [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. 273 (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.

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  • Museum No.: UM 29-15-769
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Amar-Suen.08.00.00
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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
2017-01-05 at 03:42:02 Firth, Richard Transliteration Firth, Richard CDLI Approved View
2017-01-04 at 10:40:32 Firth, Richard Transliteration Firth, Richard CDLI Approved View
2016-01-17 at 12:27:57 Firth, Richard Transliteration Firth, Richard CDLI Approved View
2011-07-22 at 13:48:16 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:24:52 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:23:00 CDLI Transliteration CDLI CDLI Approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact metadata CDLI CDLI Approved View

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

Seal Provenience Period Date
CDLI Seals 004507 (composite) (P457217) Nippur (mod. Nuffar) Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 636 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121334.
NATN 636 artifact entry (No. P121334). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121334 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 636 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121334 (Accessed: March 9, 2026).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-09]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 636 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121334},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121334},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/23/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P121334
LB  - CDLI:P121334
M1  - 2026/3/9/
TI  - NATN 636 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P121334
ER  -

Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 636 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121334.
NATN 636 artifact entry (No. P121334). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121334 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 636 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121334 (Accessed: March 9, 2026).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-09]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 636 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121334},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121334},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/23/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P121334
LB  - CDLI:P121334
M1  - 2026/3/9/
TI  - NATN 636 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P121334
ER  -
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