UM 29-16-647 (P228792)

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

Cite

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

UM 29-16-647

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical (Obv: list of PN's (unidentified/general); Rev: Not preserved School exercise; personal names--ur; 10 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Lexical (Obv: list of PN's (unidentified/general); Rev: Not preserved School exercise; personal names--ur; 10 lines) School text
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

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

Record

CDLI number	P228792
Permalink	https://cdli.network/entity/P228792

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	fragment Tablet frag, upper left, rev blank

Provenance

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

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	UM 29-16-647
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	567344
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	UM.29-16-647
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P228792

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-06-14 at 22:28:20	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	Artifact metadata	Veldhuis, Niek	Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts	CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifacts

“UM 29-16-647 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P228792.

UM 29-16-647 artifact entry (No. P228792). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P228792 (Original work published 2003)

UM 29-16-647 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P228792 (Accessed: April 13, 2026).

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Cite this Artifacts

“UM 29-16-647 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P228792.

UM 29-16-647 artifact entry (No. P228792). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P228792 (Original work published 2003)

UM 29-16-647 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P228792 (Accessed: April 13, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-13]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P228792},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P228792},
}

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