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CBS 10158 (P230466)

Business / Contracts tablet 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 10158

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: OB Hh2 (reed, vessels, clay, leather, metal: Hh 8-12) Obv. model contract about [x] sar [ ] a-#a//3-ga: miscellaneous (Liebermann) Rev. ku# lines 20-27.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Text

CBS 10158
tablet
obverse model contract
reverse
column 1
1 line traces
2. [{kusz}]am-si
3. {kusz#}am-si kur-ra
4. {kusz}sumun2
5. {kusz}kir4(KA)
6. {kusz}dara3
7. {kusz}dara3-masz
8. {kusz#}szeg8
9. [{kusz}szeg8] bar#
rest of column broken
column 2
1. {kusz#}[...]
2. {kusz#}[...]
3. {kusz#}[...]
4. {kusz#}[...]
5. {kusz#}[...]
6. {kusz#}[...]
7. {kusz#}[...]
8. {kusz#}[...]
rest of column broken

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)

Collections

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: OB Hh2 (reed, vessels, clay, leather, metal: Hh 8-12) Obv. model contract about [x] sar [ ] a-#a//3-ga: miscellaneous (Liebermann) Rev. ku# lines 20-27.)
Language(s): Sumerian

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Museum No.: CBS 10158
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Chronology

Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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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
2023-06-01 at 15:26:27	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune		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
2008-05-26 at 03:47:10	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Veldhuis, Niek	Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts	CDLI	Approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

Penn Museum (584267) (584267)
Electronic Babylonian Library (CBS.10158) (CBS.10158)
Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (P230466) (P230466)
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P230466) (P230466)

Composites

This artifact is a witness to the following composite(s):

Composite	Score
CDLI Lexical 000040 (OB Nippur Ura 02) composite (P498270)	View the score

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Cite this Artifacts

“CBS 10158 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230466.

CBS 10158 artifact entry (No. P230466). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230466 (Original work published 2003)

CBS 10158 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230466 (Accessed: March 27, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-27]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {CBS 10158 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P230466},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230466},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“CBS 10158 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230466.

CBS 10158 artifact entry (No. P230466). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230466 (Original work published 2003)

CBS 10158 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230466 (Accessed: March 27, 2026).

@misc{2023CBS,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-27]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {CBS 10158 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P230466},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230466},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/6/14/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P230466
LB  - CDLI:P230466
M1  - 2026/3/27/
TI  - CBS 10158 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P230466
ER  -