PBS 05, 135 (P227799)

Lexical tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Metadata / catalogue

Flat catalogue

As CSV As TSV

Expanded catalogue

As JSON

Linked catalogue

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Text / annotations

Text data

As ATF As JTF

Linked annotations

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Related publications

As CSV As BibTeX

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

As CSV
Metadata history Transliteration history
Photo

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 15071

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical (Obv: OB Hh6 (foodstuffs: Hh XXIII-XXIV); Rev: OB Hh6 (foodstuffs: Hh XXIII-XXI Obv.Har-ra=hubullu XXI; (Obv)(i)10x(ii)2x(Rev)(iii)3x(iv)9x(v)12 lines)

Language(s)

-

Measurements

-

Witness

tablet
obverse
column 1
1. u4-hi-in
2. u4-hi-in babbar
3. u4-hi-in kukku5
4. u4-hi-in su4-a
5. u4-hi-in sig7-sig7
6. u4-hi-in gun3-a
7. u4-hi-in bar-UD
8. u4-hi-in szag4 sur
9. u4-hi-in u4-te-en du11-ga
10. [zu2]-lum
  rest broken
column 2
1. x x [x]
2. x [...]
  rest broken
column 3
  broken
reverse
column 1
  beginning broken
1'. x [...]
2'. x [...]
3'. x [...]
4'. x [...]
column 2
  beginning broken
1'. sze# [...]
2'. sze zar tab#-[ba]
3'. sze# [zar] sal!-la#
4'. sze# nig2#?-ku5-da#
5'. sze us2#-sa
6'. sze nu-[us2]-sa
7'. sze nir-ra
8'. sze nu-nir-ra
9'. sze a de2#?-a
column 3
  beginning broken
1'. in#
2'. in [...]
3'. in de5-de5
4'. in bul#
5'. in bul-bul
6'. haszhur
7'. haszhur kur-ra
8'. haszhur babbar
9'. haszhur kukku5
10'. haszhur su4-a

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)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
  • Measurements (mm):
  • Weight:
  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • Condition Description: Tablet frag, u.le.corner, ruled, Obv2,Rev3 cols.
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.:
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

  • Genre(s): Lexical (Obv: OB Hh6 (foodstuffs: Hh XXIII-XXIV); Rev: OB Hh6 (foodstuffs: Hh XXIII-XXI Obv.Har-ra=hubullu XXI; (Obv)(i)10x(ii)2x(Rev)(iii)3x(iv)9x(v)12 lines)
  • Language(s):

  • primary: PBS 5, 135

    [Poebel1914PBS5] Poebel, Arno. 1914. Historical and Grammatical Texts. Publications of the Babylonian Section 5. University Museum, Pennsylvania.

  • history: MSL 11, 111 L

    [Civil1974MSL11] Reiner, Erica, and Miguel Civil. 1974. The Series ḪAR-Ra = Ḫubullu. Tablets XX-XXIV. Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon 11. Pontificium Institutum Biblicum.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: CBS 15071
  • Accession No.:

  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
  • Elevation:
  • Stratigraphic Level:
  • Excavation No:
  • Findspot Square:
  • Findspot Comments:

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2025-03-07 at 09:42:23 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2025-03-06 at 18:45:06 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-06-14 at 12:21:25 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-06-01 at 15:22:11 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-01-19 at 10:11:27 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2016-06-11 at 08:02:52 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2008-05-26 at 01:54:07 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Veldhuis, Niek Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts CDLI approved View

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

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

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

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes: -
Cite this Artifact
“PBS 05, 135 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). March 7, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P227799.
PBS 05, 135 artifact entry (No. P227799). (2025, March 7). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P227799 (Original work published 2003)
PBS 05, 135 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P227799 (Accessed: May 16, 2025).
@misc{2025PBS,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-16]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {mar 7},
	title = {PBS 05, 135 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P227799},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P227799},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2025/3/7/
PY  - 2025
ID  - P227799
LB  - CDLI:P227799
M1  - 2025/5/16/
TI  - PBS 05, 135 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P227799
ER  -
This website uses essential cookies that are necessary for it to work properly. These cookies are enabled by default.