BE 01/1, 081 (P263441)

Official or display brick excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 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 08643

Period

Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Brick

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Official or display (witness Building inscription of RN recording work on the Ekur; 10 lines; *in a later structure of the inner wall of Ziggurat)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Witness Annotation unreviewed

brick
obverse
1. {d}en-lil2
 en: For Enlil,
2. lugal kur-kur-ra
 en: king of all the lands
3. lugal-a-ni-ir
 en: his king;
4. {d}IM-MU-SZESZ
5. sipa sze-ga-bi
 en: his obedient shepherd
6. u2-a nibru{ki}-a
 en: provider of Nippur
7. sag-us2 e2-kur-ra
 en: constant for the E-kur
8. e2-kur e2 ki-ag2#-ga2-a-ni
 en: the E-kur, his beloved temple
9. szeg12(?) al-ur#-ra-ta
 en: of baked bricks
10. mu-un-na-du3#
 en: he built

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)
Consult word list of Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

  • Artifact type: Brick
  • Material: Clay
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
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  • Genre(s): Official or display (witness Building inscription of RN recording work on the Ekur; 10 lines; *in a later structure of the inner wall of Ziggurat)
  • Language(s): Sumerian

  • primary: BE 1/1, 081

    [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.

  • history: JCS 37 (pp. 229-248), 239, 49A

    [Behrens1985JCS37] Behrens, Hermann. 1985. “Die Backsteine Mit Keilinschriften Im University Museum.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 37 (2): 229–48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1359869.

  • history: MSKH 1, p.90

    [Brinkman1976MSKH1] Brinkman, John A. 1976. A Catalogue of Cuneiform Sources Pertaining to Specific Monarchs of the Kassite Dynasty. Materials and Studies for Kassite History 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago.

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  • Museum No.: CBS 08643
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-10-07 at 17:55:43 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-06-01 at 18:45:26 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-01-24 at 14:50:08 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Atf Pagé-Perron, Émilie Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2023-06-18 at 17:54:02 Chóliz, Guillermo Atf Chóliz, Guillermo electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2023-06-15 at 19:55:18 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-06-01 at 09:44:24 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune Rattenborg, Rune 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
2005-04-25 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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Dummy composite "needed" (P546835) View the score

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Cite this Artifact
“BE 01/1, 081 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 7, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P263441.
BE 01/1, 081 artifact entry (No. P263441). (2024, October 7). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P263441 (Original work published 2005)
BE 01/1, 081 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P263441 (Accessed: May 9, 2025).
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	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 7},
	title = {BE 01/1, 081 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P263441},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P263441},
}


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