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Ontario 2, 496 (P209812)

Lexical tablet excavated in Uncertain (mod. uncertain), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Text / annotations

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Chemical Data

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Museum Collection(s)

Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Museum Number

ROM 910x209.438

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

uncertain (mod. uncertain)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Witness

Text

tablet
obverse
1. ninda ab2-ba
2. ninda ab e11-a
3. ninda szu-sikil

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Consult word list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Collections

Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Lexical
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: Ontario 2, 496

[Sigrist2004Ontario2] Sigrist, Marcel. 2004. Neo-Sumerian Texts from the Royal Ontario Museum. II: Administrative Texts Mainly from Umma. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: ROM 910x209.438
Accession No.: D0970

Provenience

Provenience: uncertain (mod. uncertain)
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Chronology

Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Dates Referenced: 00.00.00.00
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-06-14 at 12:21:25	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-01 at 15:22:11	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune		Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2013-07-11 at 20:27:10	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2011-07-22 at 14:38:45	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2008-05-26 at 01:33:34	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2006-10-12 at 12:33:02	CDLI	Transliteration	CDLI		CDLI	Approved
2002-07-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Alivernini, Sergio; Alster, Bendt; Englund, Robert K.; Molina, Manuel; Reid, Nicholas		CDLI	Approved

External Resources

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

Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (P209812) (P209812)
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P209812) (P209812)

Composites

This artifact is a witness to the following composite(s):

Composite	Score
CDLI Lexical 000043 (OB Nippur Ura 06) composite (P498273)	View the score

Notes

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Cite this Artifacts

“Ontario 2, 496 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P209812.

Ontario 2, 496 artifact entry (No. P209812). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P209812 (Original work published 2002)

Ontario 2, 496 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P209812 (Accessed: March 17, 2026).

@misc{2023Ontario,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-17]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {Ontario 2, 496 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P209812},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P209812},
}

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DA  - 2023/6/14/
PY  - 2023
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M1  - 2026/3/17/
TI  - Ontario 2, 496 artifact entry
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ER  -

Cite this Artifacts

“Ontario 2, 496 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P209812.

Ontario 2, 496 artifact entry (No. P209812). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P209812 (Original work published 2002)

Ontario 2, 496 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P209812 (Accessed: March 17, 2026).

@misc{2023Ontario,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-17]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {Ontario 2, 496 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P209812},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P209812},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/6/14/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P209812
LB  - CDLI:P209812
M1  - 2026/3/17/
TI  - Ontario 2, 496 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P209812
ER  -