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UM 29-16-583 (P228782)

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

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

UM 29-16-583

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 School exercise; contract phrases; 9x5 lines. Model contracts: houses. Largish type 3 tablet.)

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Collections

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Artifact Preservation: fragment
Condition Description: Tablet, upper left corner broken, bottom chipped
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Text Information

Genre(s): Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract School exercise; contract phrases; 9x5 lines. Model contracts: houses. Largish type 3 tablet.)
This text is a school text.
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Museum No.: UM 29-16-583
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Provenience

Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Chronology

Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-06-14 at 22:28:20	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
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
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Veldhuis, Niek	Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts	CDLI	approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

Penn Museum (567287) (567287)
Electronic Babylonian Library (UM.29-16-583) (UM.29-16-583)
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P228782) (P228782)

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Cite this Artifact

“UM 29-16-583 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P228782.

UM 29-16-583 artifact entry (No. P228782). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P228782 (Original work published 2003)

UM 29-16-583 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P228782 (Accessed: December 17, 2025).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P228782},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“UM 29-16-583 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P228782.

UM 29-16-583 artifact entry (No. P228782). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P228782 (Original work published 2003)

UM 29-16-583 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P228782 (Accessed: December 17, 2025).

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	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {UM 29-16-583 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P228782},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P228782},
}

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