N 5521 (P231403)

Lexical 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

Cite

Photo

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 5521

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical (Obv: list of PN's (unidentified/general); Rev: list of PN's (unidentified/genera Obv. names a-bu-um-.... Rev. names; line 5 na-bi-d.EN.ZU. Parallels N 5542.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Lexical (Obv: list of PN's (unidentified/general); Rev: list of PN's (unidentified/genera Obv. names a-bu-um-.... Rev. names; line 5 na-bi-d.EN.ZU. Parallels N 5542.)
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period	Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P231403
Permalink	https://cdli.network/entity/P231403

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

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

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	N 5521
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	574443
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	N.5521
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P231403

References

history: ZA 101 (pp. 246–73), 261

[Peterson2011ZA101] Peterson, Jeremiah. 2011. “The Personal Name Lists in the Scribal Curriculum of Old Babylonian Nippur: An Overview.” Zeitschrift Für Assyriologie 101: 246–73.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-06-16 at 14:41:15	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
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	Artifact metadata	Veldhuis, Niek	Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts	CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifacts

“N 5521 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 16, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P231403.

N 5521 artifact entry (No. P231403). (2024, June 16). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P231403 (Original work published 2003)

N 5521 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P231403 (Accessed: April 7, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P231403},
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Cite this Artifacts

“N 5521 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 16, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P231403.

N 5521 artifact entry (No. P231403). (2024, June 16). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P231403 (Original work published 2003)

N 5521 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P231403 (Accessed: April 7, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-07]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jun 16},
	title = {N 5521 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P231403},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P231403},
}

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PY  - 2024
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TI  - N 5521 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P231403
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