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CDLI Literary 000799, ex. 031 (P231595)

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, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 14104

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Literary > Wisdom or proverb (ETCSL 6.01.05 Proverbs Collection 05 (witness) Obv: Proverb collection 5; Rev: Proverb collection 5)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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  • Material: Clay
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  • history: Alster Proverbs, 119 A, CBS 14104

    [Alster1997Proverbs] Alster, Bendt. 1997. Proverbs of Ancient Sumer: The World’s Earliest Proverb Collection.

  • history: JCS 12 (pp. 1-21), 007, pl. 1-2

    [Gordon1958JCS12] Gordon, Edmund I. 1958. “Sumerian Animal Proverbs and Fables: ‘Collection Five.’” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 12 (1): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.2307/1359579.

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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-09-02 at 08:45:16 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-09-02 at 07:32:18 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-09-02 at 07:29:31 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-06-03 at 18:58:25 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
2023-01-19 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
“CDLI Literary 000799, Ex. 031 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 2, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P231595.
CDLI Literary 000799, ex. 031 artifact entry (No. P231595). (2024, September 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P231595 (Original work published 2003)
CDLI Literary 000799, ex. 031 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P231595 (Accessed: April 16, 2025).
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P231595},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P231595},
}


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