BE 20/1, 007 (P230009)

Lexical tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Cite

Photo

Lineart

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 08537

Period

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical, Scholarly or scientific > Mathematical (table - mult. 36)

Language(s)

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Lexical, Scholarly or scientific > Mathematical (table - mult. 36)
Language(s)

Chronology

Period
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P230009 P254473 (retired)
Permalink	https://cdli.network/entity/P230009

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

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

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	CBS 08537
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	583318
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	CBS.8537
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P230009

References

primary: BE 20/1, 007

[Hilprecht1906BE20/1] Hilprecht, Hermann V. 1906. Mathematical, Metrological and Chronological Tablets from the Temple Library of Nippur. University of Pennsylvania Babylonian Expedition 20/1.
history: MKT 1, 036, CBS 08537

[Neugebauer1935MKT1] Neugebauer, Otto E. 1935. Mathematische Keilschrift-Texte. Erster Teil: Texte. Quellen Und Studien Zur Geschichte Der Mathematik, Astronomie Und Physik, Abteilung A: Quellen 3. Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-08-28 at 10:09:45	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
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

“BE 20/1, 007 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 28, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P230009.

BE 20/1, 007 artifact entry (No. P230009). (2024, August 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230009 (Original work published 2003)

BE 20/1, 007 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230009 (Accessed: April 20, 2026).

@misc{2024BE,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-20]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {aug 28},
	title = {BE 20/1, 007 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P230009},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230009},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“BE 20/1, 007 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 28, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P230009.

BE 20/1, 007 artifact entry (No. P230009). (2024, August 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230009 (Original work published 2003)

BE 20/1, 007 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230009 (Accessed: April 20, 2026).

@misc{2024BE,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-20]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {aug 28},
	title = {BE 20/1, 007 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P230009},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230009},
}

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DA  - 2024/8/28/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P230009
LB  - CDLI:P230009
M1  - 2026/4/20/
TI  - BE 20/1, 007 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P230009
ER  -