PBS 12, 55 (P227671)

Lexical tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Photo

Lineart

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 11387

Period

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical (Obv: P-Ea; Rev: P-Ea Syllabary, Sum.signs with glosses; (Obv)(i)9x(ii)15x(iii)21x(iv)10x(v)6x(vi)5x(Rev)(vii) 6x(viii)8x(ix)8x(x)12x(xi)0 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Lexical (Obv: P-Ea; Rev: P-Ea Syllabary, Sum.signs with glosses; (Obv)(i)9x(ii)15x(iii)21x(iv)10x(v)6x(vi)5x(Rev)(vii) 6x(viii)8x(ix)8x(x)12x(xi)0 lines)
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P227671
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P227671

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	fragment Tablet frag, Obv.6cols, Rev.5cols.

Provenance

Provenience	Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot	Nippur I, Tablet Hill
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	CBS 11387
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	585551
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	CBS.11387
Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (DCCLT)	P227671
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P227671

References

primary: PBS 12, 55

[Langdon1917PBS12] Langdon, Stephen H. 1917. Sumerian Grammatical Texts. Publications of the Babylonian Section 12. University Museum, Philadelphia.
history: MSL 14, p. 21 (De)

[Civil1979MSL14] Civil, Miguel. 1979. Ea A = Naqu, Aa A = Naqu, with Their Forerunners and Related Texts. Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon 14.
history: MSL 02, pls. 07-08

[Landsberger1951MSL2] Landsberger, Benno. 1951. Ur-e-a = Nâqu. Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon 2. Pontificium Institutum Biblicum.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-09-02 at 09:16:24	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
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
2023-01-19 at 10:11:27	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Veldhuis, Niek	Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts	CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“PBS 12, 55 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 2, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P227671.

PBS 12, 55 artifact entry (No. P227671). (2024, September 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P227671 (Original work published 2003)

PBS 12, 55 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P227671 (Accessed: October 13, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P227671},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“PBS 12, 55 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 2, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P227671.

PBS 12, 55 artifact entry (No. P227671). (2024, September 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P227671 (Original work published 2003)

PBS 12, 55 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P227671 (Accessed: October 13, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-13]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {sep 2},
	title = {PBS 12, 55 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P227671},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P227671},
}

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