Finkel AfO 27, 038 (P265697)

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

CBS 10489 + CBS 10756

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Ritual and liturgical > Prayer (Incantation; (Obv)14x(Rev)7 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Condition Description: center part broken, ruled
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  • primary: AfO 27 (pp. 37-52), 038

    [Finkel1980AfO27] Finkel, Irving L. 1980. “The Crescent Fertile.” Archiv Für Orientforschung 27: 37–52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41636416.

  • history: OIP 16, 016 (CBS 10756)

    [Chiera1934OIP16] Chiera, Edward. 1934. Sumerian Texts of Varied Contents. Oriental Institute Publications 16. University of Chicago Press.

  • history: Quadsem 18 (pp. 305-326), 324, no. 4

    [Michalowski1992Quadsem18] Michalowski, Piotr. 1992. “The Early Mesopotamian Incantation Tradition .” Quaderni Di Semantica, Quaderni di Semitistica, 18: 305–26.

  • 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, .

    Almost entirely intact imgida. Gynecological incantation. Edited by Finkel AfO 27 37

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  • Museum No.: CBS 10489 + CBS 10756
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-06-24 at 19:29:32 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-06-23 at 14:07:25 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-06-07 at 13:38:24 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-07-30 at 15:23:23 Firth, Richard Artifact 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
2005-04-25 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
“Finkel AfO 27, 038 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 24, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P265697.
Finkel AfO 27, 038 artifact entry (No. P265697). (2024, June 24). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P265697 (Original work published 2005)
Finkel AfO 27, 038 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P265697 (Accessed: May 3, 2025).
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P265697},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P265697},
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