AS 16, 012, N 0963 (P230723)

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 0963

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: fields.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: AS 16, p.1-12, p. 12, N 963

    [Civil1965law] Civil, Miguel. 1965. “New Sumerian Law Fragments.” In Studies in Honor of Benno Landsberger on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday, April 21, 1965, 1–12. Assyriological Studies 16. Chicago, Illinois: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

  • history: MSLF, no.162

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

  • history: JCS 32 (pp. 127-146), 128

    [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.

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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
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
2023-06-01 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
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
“AS 16, 012, N 0963 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P230723.
AS 16, 012, N 0963 artifact entry (No. P230723). (2024, July 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230723 (Original work published 2003)
AS 16, 012, N 0963 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230723 (Accessed: May 8, 2025).
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P230723},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230723},
}


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