JNER 09, 126-127 (P255504)

Prayer 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

UM 29-13-569

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Ritual and liturgical > Prayer (Literary; 11x8 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • Condition Description: center
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  • primary: JNER 09 (pp. 125-141), 126-127

    [Peterson2009JNER9] Peterson, Jeremiah. 2009. “An Old Babylonian Incantation Collective with Incantations Involving a Counter-Measure against Oath-Breaking and the Alteration of a Dream of the King.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 9 (2): 125–41. https://doi.org/10.1163/156921109X12520501747750.

  • citation: NABU 2013/1, NABU 2013/001,

    [PetersonNABU2013/1] Peterson, Jeremiah. 2013. “A Catalog of Old Babylonian Sumerian Incantations and Rituals from Nippur in the University Museum, Philadelphia,” Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, .

    Central piece of an imgida with both the obverse and reverse preserved. Incantation collective preserving a ritual for negating an oath with the subscript [ka in]im-ma gu DU3-DU3-u3-kam and a ritual for altering a royal dream with the subscript ka-inim-ma nam-tar lugal bur2-ru-da-kam (restored from the duplicate VAT 8395 (VAS 17, 028))


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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-06-17 at 15:12:19 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-01-19 at 10:20:17 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2005-02-24 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Peterson, Jeremiah CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact

“JNER 09, 126-127 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 17, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P255504.
JNER 09, 126-127 artifact entry (No. P255504). (2024, June 17). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P255504 (Original work published 2005)
JNER 09, 126-127 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P255504 (Accessed: January 2, 2026).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-02]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jun 17},
	title = {JNER 09, 126-127 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P255504},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P255504},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“JNER 09, 126-127 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 17, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P255504.
JNER 09, 126-127 artifact entry (No. P255504). (2024, June 17). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P255504 (Original work published 2005)
JNER 09, 126-127 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P255504 (Accessed: January 2, 2026).
@misc{2024JNER,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-02]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jun 17},
	title = {JNER 09, 126-127 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P255504},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P255504},
}

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DA  - 2024/6/17/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P255504
LB  - CDLI:P255504
M1  - 2026/1/2/
TI  - JNER 09, 126-127 artifact entry
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