NATN 869 (P121566)

Letter 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 — (missing ?)

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Letter

Language(s)

Sumerian

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tablet
obverse
1. ur-{d}nanna-ka
2. u3-na-a-du11
3. a2# gurusz u4 1(u) 5(disz)-kam
4. [ha-mu]-na#-ab-szum2-mu#
reverse
  broken

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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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  • primary: NATN, 869

    [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: Michalowski Letters, 084:143

    [Michalowski1993Letters] Michalowski, Piotr. 1993. Letters from Early Mesopotamia. Vol. 3. Writings from the Ancient World.

  • history: OrNS 40, p.386-400, p. 394 8

    [Owen1971letter-orders] Owen, David I. 1971. “Ur III Letter-Orders from Nippur in the University Museum.” Orientalia NS 40: 386–400.

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  • Museum No.: UM — (missing ?)
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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  • Excavation No: 2N-T0682
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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
2024-07-04 at 08:40:46 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2024-07-04 at 08:37:10 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2024-07-04 at 08:33:03 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 13:48:40 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:25:07 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:23:07 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 869 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121566.
NATN 869 artifact entry (No. P121566). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121566 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 869 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121566 (Accessed: February 24, 2026).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-24]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 869 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121566},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121566},
}

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DA  - 2024/7/23/
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TI  - NATN 869 artifact entry
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Cite this Artifacts

“NATN 869 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121566.
NATN 869 artifact entry (No. P121566). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121566 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 869 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121566 (Accessed: February 24, 2026).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-24]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 869 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121566},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121566},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/23/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P121566
LB  - CDLI:P121566
M1  - 2026/2/24/
TI  - NATN 869 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P121566
ER  - 
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