N 4541 (P228267)

Business / Contracts 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

Cite

Photo

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 4541

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: Not preserved Lexical?; 9x0 lines. Obverse: [ ]-na? [ ]-na-ra [ ]-me-en [ ]-KA [ ]x-da [ ]x-mu [ ]-bi [ ]-ke//4 [ ]-sum perhaps model contract?)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: Not preserved Lexical?; 9x0 lines. Obverse: [ ]-na? [ ]-na-ra [ ]-me-en [ ]-KA [ ]x-da [ ]x-mu [ ]-bi [ ]-ke//4 [ ]-sum perhaps model contract?)
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period	Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P228267
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P228267

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	fragment Tablet chip, center, 2 cols

Provenance

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

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	N 4541
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	573177
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	N.4541
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P228267

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
2023-01-19 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

“N 4541 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P228267.

N 4541 artifact entry (No. P228267). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P228267 (Original work published 2003)

N 4541 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P228267 (Accessed: October 29, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“N 4541 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P228267.

N 4541 artifact entry (No. P228267). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P228267 (Original work published 2003)

N 4541 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P228267 (Accessed: October 29, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-29]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {N 4541 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P228267},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P228267},
}

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DA  - 2023/6/14/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P228267
LB  - CDLI:P228267
M1  - 2026/10/29/
TI  - N 4541 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P228267
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