NATN 748 (P121445)

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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Chemical Data

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 0621

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (Field lease agreement; seals; 9x9 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 4(iku)# GAN2 a-sza3 {d}szul-pa-e3
2. [apin]-la2-sze3
3. ki lu2-{d}utu
4. ur-me-me-ke4 i3-dab5
5. 1/2(disz) gin2 ku3 masz2-bi
6. LAGAB-a szu ba-ti
7. a-sza3-bi inim bi2-ib2-gi-ne2
reverse
1. igi 1(disz) ur-{d}nin-gir2-su
2. igi 1(disz) {d}nanna-dalla-sze3
3. igi 1(disz) di-de3-sze3
4. lu2-inim-ma-bi-me
5. sza3 gir2-su{ki}
6. iti ki-siki-{d}nin-a-zu
7. mu us2-sa bad3 mar-tu ba-du3
envelope
broken

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)

Collections

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet & envelope
Material: Clay
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Condition Description: fragments of envelope ?
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Text Information

Genre(s): Administrative (Field lease agreement; seals; 9x9 lines)
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: NATN, 748

[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. 369 (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.
history: WdO 9, p.201-205, p. 203

[Waetzoldt1978Feldpachtverträge] Waetzoldt, Hartmut. 1978. “Zu Den Feldpachtverträgen Aus Nippur.” Welt Des Orients 9: 201–5.
citation: Steinkeller, Security for debt (2001), p. 58-59 no. 13

[Steinkeller2001security] Steinkeller, Piotr. 2001. “The Ur III Period.” In Security for Debt in Ancient Near Eastern Law, edited by Raymond Westbrook and Richard Jasnow, 9:47–62. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Leiden: Brill.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: N 0621
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar) Provenience Comments:
Steinkeller: Dusabara, Ur-meme texts
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.05.05.00 (us2 year) (Reichskalender)
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-07-23 at 10:14:41	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-06-12 at 09:25:16	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
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
2011-07-22 at 13:48:32	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2011-05-02 at 14:25:01	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2006-10-12 at 12:23:02	CDLI	Transliteration	CDLI		CDLI	Approved
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	CDLI		CDLI	Approved

External Resources

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

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (025622) (025622)
Penn Museum (569383) (569383)
Electronic Babylonian Library (N.621) (N.621)

Seals

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

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

Notes

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Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 748 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121445.

NATN 748 artifact entry (No. P121445). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121445 (Original work published 2001)

NATN 748 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121445 (Accessed: February 28, 2026).

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	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 748 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121445},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121445},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 748 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121445.

NATN 748 artifact entry (No. P121445). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121445 (Original work published 2001)

NATN 748 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121445 (Accessed: February 28, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-28]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 748 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121445},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121445},
}

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PY  - 2024
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M1  - 2026/2/28/
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