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N 4704 (P228325)

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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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 4704

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical (Obv: OB Hh1 (gi_: Hh 3-7); Rev: Not preserved Lexical; gish ma2; 5 lines Tablet frag, upper left corner, rev illegible. Obv. 5 gi# ma//2 items. No qualifications preserved.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • Condition Description: Tablet frag, upper left corner, rev blank
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  • Genre(s): Lexical (Obv: OB Hh1 (gi_: Hh 3-7); Rev: Not preserved Lexical; gish ma2; 5 lines Tablet frag, upper left corner, rev illegible. Obv. 5 gi# ma//2 items. No qualifications preserved.)
  • Language(s): Sumerian

  • history: Veldhuis EEN, p. 334

    [Veldhuis1997EEN] Veldhuis, Niek. 1997. “Elementary Education at Nippur. The Lists of Trees and Wooden Objects.” Phdthesis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

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  • Museum No.: N 4704
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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
2023-01-19 at 10:11:27 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Veldhuis, Niek Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“N 4704 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P228325.
N 4704 artifact entry (No. P228325). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P228325 (Original work published 2003)
N 4704 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P228325 (Accessed: April 16, 2025).
@misc{2023N,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-16]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {N 4704 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P228325},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P228325},
}


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