JCS 32, 146, N 5265 (P230138)

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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Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 5265

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical (Obv: Laws of rented oxen Law about oxen; 7 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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tablet
obverse
1. tukum-bi gu4 ansze#? [...]
2. ki-ba ur-mah-e [ba-an-gaz]
3. [nu]-ub-[su-su]
4. tukum-[bi ...]
5. x-x bala#? [...]
6. igi#-[n-gal2 sa10-am3-ba-ka]
7. i3#-[la2-e]
  rest broken
reverse
  broken

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Genre(s): Lexical (Obv: Laws of rented oxen Law about oxen; 7 lines)
  • Language(s): Sumerian

  • primary: JCS 32 (pp. 127-146), 146, N 5265

    [Roth1980JCS32] Roth, Martha T. 1980. “The Scholastic Exercise ‘Laws about Rented Oxen.’” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 32 (3): 127–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/1359651.

  • history: Mesop. Law, 280

    [Roth1979MesopLaw] Roth, Martha T. 1979.

  • history: Lieberman photo: ki-ulutin-bi-sze

    [sec33366] N.d.

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  • Museum No.: N 5265
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-15 at 13:29:52 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-07-04 at 18:43:00 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-06-14 at 22:28:20 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
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 View
2021-02-11 at 12:03:29 Foxvog, Daniel A. Atf Foxvog, Daniel A. CDLI approved View
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Veldhuis, Niek Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“JCS 32, 146, N 5265 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 15, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P230138.
JCS 32, 146, N 5265 artifact entry (No. P230138). (2024, July 15). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230138 (Original work published 2003)
JCS 32, 146, N 5265 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230138 (Accessed: May 8, 2025).
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	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 15},
	title = {JCS 32, 146, {N} 5265 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P230138},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230138},
}


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