CBS 09852 + CBS 09867 + CBS 09872 + CBS 13379 + N 4581 + N 4737 (P230749)

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

Cite

Photo

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 09852 + CBS 09867 + CBS 09872 + CBS 13379 + N 4581 + N 4737

Period

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract Model contracts: grain.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Has fragments

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract Model contracts: grain.)
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

P230749 leadP230749 lead

CDLI number	P230749
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P230749

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	Fragmented

Provenance

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

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	CBS 09852 + CBS 09867 + CBS 09872 + CBS 13379 + N 4581 + N 4737
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	584407 + 584404 + 584405 + 584406 + 584408 + 584409
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	CBS.9852 + CBS.9867 + CBS.9872 + CBS.13379 + N.4581 + N.4737
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P230749

References

history: MSLF, no. 84

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

N 4737

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
2023-01-19 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, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Veldhuis, Niek	Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts	CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“CBS 09852 + CBS 09867 + CBS 09872 + CBS 13379 + N 4581 + N 4737 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230749.

CBS 09852 + CBS 09867 + CBS 09872 + CBS 13379 + N 4581 + N 4737 artifact entry (No. P230749). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230749 (Original work published 2003)

CBS 09852 + CBS 09867 + CBS 09872 + CBS 13379 + N 4581 + N 4737 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230749 (Accessed: October 18, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“CBS 09852 + CBS 09867 + CBS 09872 + CBS 13379 + N 4581 + N 4737 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230749.

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