CDLI Literary 000796, ex. 090 (P228566)

Literary 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 29-13-449

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Literary, Literary > Wisdom or proverb (ETCSL 6.01.02 Proverbs Collection 02 (witness) Obv: lú-ázlag = aszlaku (OB Lú bilingual); Rev: Proverb collection 2; Old Babylonian LU, unplaced frag; rev: SP coll. 2; 7x6 lines. Alster: UM 29-13-449. Photographs: Pl. 10. Rev. = 5-8. Obv. lexical. OB Lu, MSL 12, 200 f. The left edge is preserved.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Witness

  UM 29-13-449 = Frag I 3-6
tablet
obverse
1'. lu2# hum#-hum# = %a lu#-up#-pu?#-nu-um#
2'. lu2 gar8-da szub-ba = %a ma-ah-s,a-am be-el# u2-ri-im
3'. lu2 mur7-ba nu2-a = %a sza i-na# ta-ba-asz-ta-ni-[szu] bu#-lu#-lu
4'. lu2# szu# la2-a = %a u2#-s,u2#-lum
  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, left edge and center
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  • Genre(s): Literary, Literary > Wisdom or proverb (ETCSL 6.01.02 Proverbs Collection 02 (witness) Obv: lú-ázlag = aszlaku (OB Lú bilingual); Rev: Proverb collection 2; Old Babylonian LU, unplaced frag; rev: SP coll. 2; 7x6 lines. Alster: UM 29-13-449. Photographs: Pl. 10. Rev. = 5-8. Obv. lexical. OB Lu, MSL 12, 200 f. The left edge is preserved.)
  • Language(s): Sumerian

  • history: Alster Proverbs, 044

    [Alster1997Proverbs] Alster, Bendt. 1997. Proverbs of Ancient Sumer: The World’s Earliest Proverb Collection.

  • history: MSL 12, 200 A'

    [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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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-09-02 at 08:45:16 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-09-02 at 07:32:18 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-09-02 at 07:29:31 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity 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
2008-05-26 at 02:26:00 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 000302 (OB lu2-azlag2 B-C) composite (P499084) View the score

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Cite this Artifact
“CDLI Literary 000796, Ex. 090 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 2, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P228566.
CDLI Literary 000796, ex. 090 artifact entry (No. P228566). (2024, September 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P228566 (Original work published 2003)
CDLI Literary 000796, ex. 090 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P228566 (Accessed: May 6, 2025).
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P228566},
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