OB Legal 089 (P259117)

Legal tablet & envelope 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

Metadata / catalogue

Flat catalogue

As CSV As TSV

Expanded catalogue

As JSON

Linked catalogue

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Text / annotations

Text data

Related publications

As CSV As BibTeX

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

As CSV
Metadata history
Photo

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 01798 & CBS 01798a

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Rental of fields)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

  • Artifact type: Tablet & envelope
  • Material: Clay
  • Measurements (mm):
  • Weight:
  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • Condition Description: & envelope, fragments
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.:
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

  • primary: OLA 21, 89

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

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: CBS 01798 & CBS 01798a
  • Accession No.:

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
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

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

This artifact is impressed by the following seal(s):

Seal Provenience Period Date
dummy composite seal for unidentified seals (P533185) - -

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes: -
Cite this Artifact
“OB Legal 089 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 1, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P259117.
OB Legal 089 artifact entry (No. P259117). (2023, February 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P259117 (Original work published 2005)
OB Legal 089 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P259117 (Accessed: May 3, 2025).
@misc{2023OB,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-03]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {feb 1},
	title = {OB {Legal} 089 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P259117},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P259117},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/2/1/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P259117
LB  - CDLI:P259117
M1  - 2025/5/3/
TI  - OB Legal 089 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P259117
ER  -
This website uses essential cookies that are necessary for it to work properly. These cookies are enabled by default.