Proverbs 300, UM 29-16-039 (P231679)

Wisdom or proverb tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

UM 29-16-039

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Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Literary > Wisdom or proverb (Obv: Unidentified proverb collection.; Rev: Not preserved Literary; proverbs?; 23 lines)

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Sumerian

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  • primary: Alster Proverbs, 300, UM 29-16-039

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

  • history: (not UM 29-16-394 as published)

    [sec34142] N.d.

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  • Museum No.: UM 29-16-039
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-09-02 at 08:33:31 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
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
“Proverbs 300, UM 29-16-039 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 2, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P231679.
Proverbs 300, UM 29-16-039 artifact entry (No. P231679). (2024, September 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P231679 (Original work published 2003)
Proverbs 300, UM 29-16-039 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P231679 (Accessed: May 22, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-22]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {sep 2},
	title = {Proverbs 300, {UM} 29-16-039 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P231679},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P231679},
}


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