OB Legal 034 (P257910)

Legal tablet excavated in Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah), 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 00462

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Record of down payment for a house; seal. 9x3 lines)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

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tablet
obverse
1. _3(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar na4_ {d}utu
2. _sza3 sa10 e2_
3. _ki_ il-ta-ni _lukur_ {d}utu _dumu-munus lugal_
4-5. _di-ku5-mesz_ u3 _kar_ zimbir{ki}-ia-ah-ru-rum
6. _szu ba-an-ti-mesz_
7. u4-um _ku3-babbar sa10 e2_
8. a-na _di-ku5-mesz_ u3 _kar_ zimbir{ki}
9. u2-ga-am-ma-ru
reverse
1. tup#-pi2# szi-ma-at _e2_
2. i-ka-an-na-ku-ma
3. i-sza-[at,]-t,a#-[ru]
  broken
1'. _mu [...] x alan-a-[ni ...]_
seal 1
  (uninscribed)

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Consult word list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
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  • Genre(s): Legal (Record of down payment for a house; seal. 9x3 lines)
  • Language(s): Akkadian

  • primary: OLA 21, 34

    [vanLerberghe1986OLA21] Van Lerberghe, Karel. 1986. Old Babylonian Legal and Administrative Texts from Philadelphia. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 21. Leuven: Peeters.

  • history: Akkadica 137, p.1-52, p. 33 no. 10

    [DeGraef2016advance-payments] De Graef, Katrien. 2016. “Many a Mickle Makes a Muckle. Advance Payments in the Ur-Utu Archive.” Akkadica 137: 1–52.

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  • Museum No.: CBS 00462
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
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
2021-06-02 at 12:08:32 Woestenburg, Els Atf Woestenburg, Els CDLI approved View
2005-04-25 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Englund, Robert K.; Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Frayne, Douglas R.; Peterson, Jeremiah; Veldhuis, Niek; Zimmermann, Lynn-Salammbô Penn Museum CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“OB Legal 034 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 1, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P257910.
OB Legal 034 artifact entry (No. P257910). (2023, February 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P257910 (Original work published 2005)
OB Legal 034 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P257910 (Accessed: May 3, 2025).
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	month = {feb 1},
	title = {OB {Legal} 034 artifact entry},
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P257910},
}


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