MSL 07, 209 V02 (P228531)

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

UM 29-13-074

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical (Obv: OB Hh2 (reed, vessels, clay, leather, metal: Hh 8-12); Rev: OB Hh1 (gi_: H Forerunner Hh XI; Obv. IM; Rev. gi#.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Witness

  UM 29-13-074 = MSL 07: 209 = V2
tablet
obverse
1. im
2. im su4 a
3. im sig7-sig7
4. im zi-da
5. im babbar
6. im gi6
7. im kal
8. im dug
9. im dugud
10. im [gu2-en-na]
11. im gu2 [nig2-gar-gar]
  1 line traces
  rest of column broken
reverse
column 1
1'. gesz [...]
2'. gesz [...]
3'. gesz nimbar-X-[...]
4'. gesz nimbar-kur-[...]
5'. gesz nimbar-dilmun#-[...]
6'. gesz nimbar-al-dar?#-[...]
7'. gesz nimbar#-al#-ku5#-[...]
8'. gesz [...]-al-[...]
9'. gesz nimbar-gu2-na#
10'. gesz nimbar-al-ug5?#-[...]
11'. gesz nimbar-al-usz2-a
12'. gesz nimbar# [...]-szeg6-ga2
13'. gesz [...]-nimbar
14'. gesz# suhur#-nimbar
15'. [...] ama#-nimbar
16'. [...]-{gesz}kiri6-nimbar
17'. gesz pa-nimbar

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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  • Condition Description: tablet deliberately cut in two in antiquity
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  • Genre(s): Lexical (Obv: OB Hh2 (reed, vessels, clay, leather, metal: Hh 8-12); Rev: OB Hh1 (gi_: H Forerunner Hh XI; Obv. IM; Rev. gi#.)
  • Language(s): Sumerian

  • primary: MSL 7, 209 V02

    [Civil1959MSL7] Reiner, Erica, and Miguel Civil. 1959. The Series ḪAR-Ra = Ḫubullu. Tablets VIII-XII. Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon 7. Pontificium Institutum Biblicum.

  • history: Veldhuis EEN, p. 310

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

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  • Museum No.: UM 29-13-074
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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
2008-05-26 at 02:24:41 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 000039 (OB Nippur Ura 01) composite (P498269) View the score

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Cite this Artifact
“MSL 07, 209 V02 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P228531.
MSL 07, 209 V02 artifact entry (No. P228531). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P228531 (Original work published 2003)
MSL 07, 209 V02 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P228531 (Accessed: May 11, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-11]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {MSL 07, 209 {V02} artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P228531},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P228531},
}


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