MSL 12, 029 Q (P228241)

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

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Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 4070

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical (Obv: Not preserved; Rev: OB Lú Lexical; sal; 10 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Witness

reverse
column 1
  broken
1'. [SAL] lu2#-gub-ba
2'. SAL# gesz-gi-sag-kesz2#
3'. [SAL] masz-tab-ba
4'. SAL# lu2#-BAR? [...]
5'. SAL siki#-dub#-ul#-[hi-nun-na]
6'. SAL siki#-ma#-az#-za#
7'. SAL musz3#-szir3#-[re]
8'. SAL# mes?#-[sa3-la2]
  broken
column 2
1'. [SAL ...]-sa#?
2'. [SAL x]-kal#-la
3'. SAL# bur2-ra
4'. SAL# dun5-na
5'. SAL# sun5-na
6'. SAL sag9-ga
7'. SAL sig7-ga
8'. SAL ka-gu2-gal
9'. SAL# gu3-silim-ma
10'. [SAL] ma?#-ki-iri?#-x
  traces
  broken

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
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • Condition Description: Tablet frag, right edge, obv blank, rev 2 cols
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  • Genre(s): Lexical (Obv: Not preserved; Rev: OB Lú Lexical; sal; 10 lines)
  • Language(s): Sumerian

  • primary: MSL 12, 029 Q

    [Landsberger1969MSL12] Landsberger, Benno, Erica Reiner, and Marcel Sigrist. 1969. A Reconstruction of Sumerian and Akkadian Lexical Lists. Materials for Sumerian Lexicon 12. Pontificium Institutum Biblicum.

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  • Museum No.: N 4070
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
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
2014-11-21 at 10:14:27 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2008-05-26 at 02:12:42 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

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

Composite Score
CDLI Lexical 000047 (OB Nippur Lu2) composite (P481702) View the score

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Cite this Artifact
“MSL 12, 029 Q Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P228241.
MSL 12, 029 Q artifact entry (No. P228241). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P228241 (Original work published 2003)
MSL 12, 029 Q artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P228241 (Accessed: May 9, 2025).
@misc{2023MSL,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-09]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {MSL 12, 029 {Q} artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P228241},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P228241},
}


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