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BE 01/1, pl. 11 no. 28 (P263395)

Official or display axe 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

CBS 08597

Period

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Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Axe

Material(s)

Metamorphic rock > Lapis lazuli

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Official or display (witness Inscription erased; *=BE 1/1 in a chamber on the edge of the canal outside of the great S.E. wall of Temple of Be^l"")

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Witness

  • Artifact type: Axe Artifact type comments:

    axe head

  • Material: Metamorphic rock > Lapis lazuli
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
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  • Artifact comments:

    axe head

  • Genre(s): Official or display (witness Inscription erased; *=BE 1/1 in a chamber on the edge of the canal outside of the great S.E. wall of Temple of Be^l"")
  • Language(s):

  • primary: BE 1/1, pl. 11 no. 28

    [Hilprecht1893BE1/1] Hilprecht, Hermann V. 1893. Old Babylonian Texts Chiefly from Nippur. The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania: Series A Cuneiform Texts, vol. 1/1. Philadelphia. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1005411.

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  • Museum No.: CBS 08597
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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  • Accounting Period: 0

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

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This artifact is a witness to the following composite(s):

Composite Score
Dummy composite "needed" (P546835) View the score

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Cite this Artifact
“BE 01/1, Pl. 11 No. 28 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 1, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P263395.
BE 01/1, pl. 11 no. 28 artifact entry (No. P263395). (2023, February 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P263395 (Original work published 2005)
BE 01/1, pl. 11 no. 28 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P263395 (Accessed: April 24, 2025).
@misc{2023BE,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-24]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {feb 1},
	title = {BE 01/1, pl. 11 no. 28 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P263395},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P263395},
}


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