CDLI Literary 000797, ex. 016 (P229734)
Literary tablet dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAMetadata / catalogue
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Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAMuseum Number
CBS 08017Provenience
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TabletMaterial(s)
ClayGenre / Subgenre(s)
Literary, Literary > Wisdom or proverb (ETCSL 6.01.03 Proverbs Collection 03 (witness) Obv: Proverb collection 3; Rev: P-Izi 1; Photographs: Pl. 36. Reverse lexical (unidentified). Obv. = 133-134, 132, an unidentified line, and traces of one sign from the last line on the column. (Alster).)Language(s)
SumerianMeasurements
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- Artifact type: Tablet
- Material: Clay
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- Condition Description: Fragment from the left corner of the bottom of a tablet that may have had two columns on each side.
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- Genre(s): Literary, Literary > Wisdom or proverb (ETCSL 6.01.03 Proverbs Collection 03 (witness) Obv: Proverb collection 3; Rev: P-Izi 1; Photographs: Pl. 36. Reverse lexical (unidentified). Obv. = 133-134, 132, an unidentified line, and traces of one sign from the last line on the column. (Alster).)
- Language(s): Sumerian
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history: Alster Proverbs, 077, CBS 8017
[Alster1997Proverbs] Alster, Bendt. 1997. Proverbs of Ancient Sumer: The World’s Earliest Proverb Collection.
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- Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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| 2024-09-02 at 07:32:18 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2024-09-02 at 07:29:31 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2023-06-14 at 22:28:20 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact metadata | Rattenborg, Rune | Geomapping Landscapes of Writing | Rattenborg, Rune | Approved |
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| 2023-06-01 at 15:22:11 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact metadata | Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune | Rattenborg, Rune | Approved |
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| 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 |
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| 2003-09-11 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact metadata | Veldhuis, Niek | Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts | CDLI | Approved |
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Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:
- The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature transliterations (6.1.3) (6.1.3)
- The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature translations (6.1.3) (6.1.3)
- Penn Museum (582759) (582759)
- Electronic Babylonian Library (CBS.8017) (CBS.8017)
- Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (P229734) (P229734)
- Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P229734) (P229734)
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Cite this Artifacts
“CDLI Literary 000797, Ex. 016 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 2, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P229734.
CDLI Literary 000797, ex. 016 artifact entry (No. P229734). (2024, September 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P229734 (Original work published 2003)
CDLI Literary 000797, ex. 016 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P229734 (Accessed: March 20, 2026).
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