CDLI Literary 000796, ex. 042 (P231517)
Wisdom or proverb 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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Museum Collection(s)
Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAMuseum Number
UM 29-13-522 + UM 29-15-249Provenience
Nippur (mod. Nuffar)Artifact Type
TabletMaterial(s)
ClayGenre / Subgenre(s)
Literary > Wisdom or proverb (ETCSL 6.01.02 Proverbs Collection 02 (witness) Obv: Proverb collection 2; Rev: Not preserved; Probably type I.)Language(s)
SumerianMeasurements
-Has fragments
- Artifact type: Tablet
- Material: Clay
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- This artifact is composed of fragments.
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- Genre(s): Literary > Wisdom or proverb (ETCSL 6.01.02 Proverbs Collection 02 (witness) Obv: Proverb collection 2; Rev: Not preserved; Probably type I.)
- Language(s): Sumerian
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history: Alster Proverbs, 041
[Alster1997Proverbs] Alster, Bendt. 1997. Proverbs of Ancient Sumer: The World’s Earliest Proverb Collection.
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history: Gordon SP, 165 pl.47 EE
[Gordon1959SP] Gordon, Edmund I. 1959. Sumerian Proverbs : Glimpses of Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Museum Monograph of the University Museum. University of Pennsylvania. University Museum.
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- Museum No.: UM 29-13-522 + UM 29-15-249
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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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| 2024-09-02 at 08:45:16 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2024-09-02 at 07:32:18 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2024-09-02 at 07:29:31 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2023-06-14 at 22:28:20 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact metadata | Rattenborg, Rune | Geomapping Landscapes of Writing | Rattenborg, Rune | Approved |
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| 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 |
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| 2003-09-11 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact metadata | 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:
- The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature transliterations (6.1.2) (6.1.2)
- The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature translations (6.1.2) (6.1.2)
- Penn Museum (565725) (565725)
- Penn Museum (565724) (565724)
- Electronic Babylonian Library (UM.29-13-522) (UM.29-13-522)
- Electronic Babylonian Library (UM.29-15-249) (UM.29-15-249)
- Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P231517) (P231517)
P231517 leadP231517 lead
Cite this Artifacts
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note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-24]},
year = {2024},
month = {sep 2},
title = {CDLI {Literary} 000796, ex. 042 artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P231517},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P231517},
}
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