N 4159 (P230777)
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, USAMetadata / catalogue
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Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAMuseum Number
N 4159Provenience
Nippur (mod. Nuffar)Artifact Type
TabletMaterial(s)
ClayLanguage(s)
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- Artifact type: Tablet
- Material: Clay
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- Genre(s): Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract Model contracts: silver.)
- Language(s): Sumerian
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history: MSLF, no. 260
[LiebermanUnpubms] Lieberman, Stephen J. nd. “Manual of Sumerian Legal Forms.”
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- Museum No.: N 4159
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- Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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- Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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| 2023-06-14 at 22:28:20 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact | Rattenborg, Rune | Geomapping Landscapes of Writing | Rattenborg, Rune | approved |
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| 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 |
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| 2003-09-11 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact | Veldhuis, Niek | Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts | CDLI | approved |
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Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:
- Penn Museum (572856) (572856)
- Electronic Babylonian Library (N.4159) (N.4159)
- Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P230777) (P230777)
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Cite this Artifact
“N 4159 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230777.
N 4159 artifact entry (No. P230777). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230777 (Original work published 2003)
N 4159 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230777 (Accessed: August 12, 2025).
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