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
Museum Collection(s)
Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAMuseum Number
UM 29-16-613Provenience
Nippur (mod. Nuffar)Artifact Type
TabletMaterial(s)
ClayGenre / Subgenre(s)
Lexical (Obv: OB Hh2 (reed, vessels, clay, leather, metal: Hh 8-12); Rev: Not preserved [g]i-pisan-TUG//2!-rum [g]i-pisan-#u-kam-ma [gi]-pisan-im-babbar//2(UD.UD) [gi-pisan]-im-si//4-a [gi-pisan-i]m-sar? Corresponds to line 55b ff in Civil's reconstruction, but the im- items do not appear there.)Language(s)
SumerianMeasurements
-Witness
| Genre(s) | Lexical (Obv: OB Hh2 (reed, vessels, clay, leather, metal: Hh 8-12); Rev: Not preserved [g]i-pisan-TUG//2!-rum [g]i-pisan-#u-kam-ma [gi]-pisan-im-babbar//2(UD.UD) [gi-pisan]-im-si//4-a [gi-pisan-i]m-sar? Corresponds to line 55b ff in Civil's reconstruction, but the im- items do not appear there.) |
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| Language(s) | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) |
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This artifact is a witness to the following composite(s):
| Composite | Composite Number | Score |
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| CDLI Lexical 000040 (OB Nippur Ura 02) composite (P498270) | Q000040 | View the score |
| CDLI number | P231724 |
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| Permalink | https://cdli.network/entity/P231724 |
| Provenience | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
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| Collection(s) |
Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Museum Number | UM 29-16-613 |
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| External Resource | Identifiers |
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| Penn Museum (Penn) | 567312 |
| Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) | UM.29-16-613 |
| Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (DCCLT) | P231724 |
| Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP) | P231724 |
| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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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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| 2023-06-01 at 15:26:27 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact metadata | Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune | 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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| 2008-05-26 at 04:11:56 | Englund, Robert K. | Transliteration | Englund, Robert K. | CDLI | 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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@misc{2023UM,
note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-23]},
year = {2023},
month = {jun 14},
title = {UM 29-16-613 artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P231724},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P231724},
}
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