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OIP 011, 056 (P229114)

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

CBS 06430

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical (Rev: OB Hh3 (animals, uzu: Hh 13-15))

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Text

tablet
reverse
column 1
1'. ansze# bara?-[la2]
2'. ansze kur-ra
3'. eme5
4'. eme5
5'. eme5 SZA3
6'. eme5 szag4-SZA3
7'. eme5 u3-tu
8'. eme5 nu-u3-tu
9'. eme5 gesz3 zu-zu
10'. eme5 gesz3 nu-zu
11'. musz
12'. musz husz
13'. musz {d}nirah
14'. musz uszumgal
15'. musz na4
16'. musz a
column 2
1'. [...]-ki#?
2'. ur#-gi7
3'. ur-tur
4'. ur-szub5
5'. ur-szub5 ku5-da
6'. az
7'. pirig
8'. nemurx(|PIRIG.TUR|)
9'. pirig ka du8-a
10'. nig
11'. nig amar-ra
12'. su-a
13'. su-RI-a
14'. ka5-a
15'. [ku5]-da
column 3
5 lines missing
6'. [...]-am#
1 line traces
8'. [...]-lu#
9'. [...]-lu#
10'. [...]-na
12'. eh
13'. eh

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)

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Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Lexical (Rev: OB Hh3 (animals, uzu: Hh 13-15))
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: OIP 11, 056

[Chiera1929OIP11] Chiera, Edward. 1929. Sumerian Lexical Texts from the Temple School of Nippur. Vol. 11. Oriental Institute Publications. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oip/oip-11-cuneiform-series-volume-i-sumerian-lexical-texts-temple-school.
history: MSL 8/1, 82 (V49)

[Landsberger1960MSL8/1] Landsberger, Benno. 1960. The Fauna of Ancient Mesopotamia (Part 1). Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon.

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Museum No.: CBS 06430
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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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Accounting Period: 0

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-09-02 at 09:14:23	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2024-07-22 at 13:24:39	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2023-06-14 at 22:28:20	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-06-01 at 15:22:11	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune		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
2008-05-26 at 02:48:41	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Veldhuis, Niek	Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts	CDLI	approved

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Composite	Score
CDLI Lexical 000001 (OB Nippur Ura 03) composite (P461397)	View the score

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“OIP 011, 056 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 2, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P229114.

OIP 011, 056 artifact entry (No. P229114). (2024, September 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P229114 (Original work published 2003)

OIP 011, 056 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P229114 (Accessed: May 13, 2025).

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	year = {2024},
	month = {sep 2},
	title = {OIP 011, 056 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P229114},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P229114},
}

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