N 3085 (P230651)

Business / Contracts 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

N 3085

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract Model contracts: houses. small fragment.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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tablet
obverse
column 1
  beginning broken
1'. [...]-x
2'. [... ARAD2-{d}]suen#?-ta
3'. [... {d}da]-mu-a-zu-ke4
4'. [...]-in-sa10
5'. [...] x til-la-bi-sze3
6'. [...] gin2# ku3-babbar
7'. [...]-na#-an-la2
8'. [...] ir3#?-{d}suen
  rest broken
column 2
  beginning broken
1'. [...]-bi#-sze3#?
2'. [inim] nu-um-ga2-ga2-a
3'. mu lugal-bi in-pa3
  single ruling
4'. 1(disz) sar 1(u) gin2 e2 du3-a
5'. da e2 ur-{d}szu-bu-la
6'. e2 ku3-{d}en-lil2-la2
7'. ki ku3 {d}en-lil-la2-ta
8'. {disz}lu2-{d}mar-tu-ke4
9'. in-szi-in-sa10#
10'. [...] x x
  rest broken
column 3
  beginning broken
1'. x [...]
2'. 1(disz) [...]
3'. da [e2 ...]
4'. e2# [...]
5'. ki AN-[...]
6'. {disz}{d}en-lil2#-[...]
7'. nam-x [...]
8'. x [...]
  rest broken
reverse
  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)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • history: MSLF, no. 53

    [LiebermanUnpubms] Lieberman, Stephen J. nd. “Manual of Sumerian Legal Forms.”

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  • Museum No.: N 3085
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-06-14 at 22:28:20 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-06-01 at 18:47:18 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Novotny, Jamie 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
2014-05-01 at 09:41:58 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. 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
“N 3085 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230651.
N 3085 artifact entry (No. P230651). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230651 (Original work published 2003)
N 3085 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230651 (Accessed: May 9, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-09]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {N 3085 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P230651},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230651},
}

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