NATN 778 (P121475)

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

N 0801

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (Receipt?; seals; 6x3x1(u.e.)x1(le.e.) lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. 1(disz) szesz-kal-la
2. a tu5-tu5!(NAGA)-da
3. ma2 szesz-da-da PA-x-[x]-ta#?
4. x-hu-um-gar
5. [...]-KA
6. [... szesz]-da#-da# ugula# [...]
reverse
1. [...]
  blank space
2. iti kin-{d}inanna
3. mu dumu-munus lugal ensi2 za-ab#-sza#-li{ki#}-ke4 ba-an-[tuku]
left
1. an-ne2-mu# [...]
seal 1
  (not given)

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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
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  • Condition Description: ; lower left corner broken
  • Join Information:
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  • Seal information:

    Hattori: 2 column seal, dedicated to Shu-Suen

  • Artifact comments:

  • primary: NATN, 778

    [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. 363

    [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.: N 0801
  • Accession No.:

  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
  • Elevation:
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  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Ibbi-Suen.05.06.00
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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
2011-07-22 at 13:48:34 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:25:03 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2009-06-03 at 10:32:26 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:23:03 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
dummy composite seal for unidentified seals (P533185) - -

General Notes: -
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Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 778 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121475.
NATN 778 artifact entry (No. P121475). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121475 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 778 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121475 (Accessed: February 27, 2026).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-27]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 778 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121475},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121475},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/23/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P121475
LB  - CDLI:P121475
M1  - 2026/2/27/
TI  - NATN 778 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P121475
ER  -

Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 778 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121475.
NATN 778 artifact entry (No. P121475). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121475 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 778 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121475 (Accessed: February 27, 2026).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-27]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 778 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121475},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121475},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/23/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P121475
LB  - CDLI:P121475
M1  - 2026/2/27/
TI  - NATN 778 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P121475
ER  -
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