Lamaštu, text Sd, pl. 61 (P266466)

Incantation tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Photo

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 11303

Period

Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Ritual and liturgical > Incantation, Lexical [identification uncertain] (Obv.incantations; Rev.syllabary, Hh 13; (Obv)(i)20x(Rev)(ii)7x(iii)6x(iv)12 lines)

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Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Ritual and liturgical > Incantation, Lexical [identification uncertain] (Obv.incantations; Rev.syllabary, Hh 13; (Obv)(i)20x(Rev)(ii)7x(iii)6x(iv)12 lines) School text
Language(s)

Chronology

Period	Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P266466
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P266466

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	fragment Ru. corner, rev. 3 cols.

Provenance

Provenience	Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	CBS 11303
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	585491
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	CBS.11303
Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (DCCLT)	P266466
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P266466

References

primary: Lamaštu, text Sd, pl. 61

[Farber2014Lamastu] Farber, Walter. 2014. Lamaštu. An Edition of the Canonical Series of Lamaštu Incantations and Rituals and Related Texts from the Second and First Millennia B.C. Mesopotamian Civilizations 17. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. https://www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/978-1-57506-258-7.html.
history: MSL 8/1, p.6

[Landsberger1960MSL8/1] Landsberger, Benno. 1960. The Fauna of Ancient Mesopotamia (Part 1). Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-08-01 at 13:25:23	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-09-02 at 09:14:23	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-06-15 at 19:55:18	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-01 at 15:26:27	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune		Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:48:15	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2005-04-25 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Englund, Robert K.; Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Frayne, Douglas R.; Peterson, Jeremiah; Veldhuis, Niek; Zimmermann, Lynn-Salammbô	Penn Museum	CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“Lamaštu, Text Sd, Pl. 61 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 1, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P266466.

Lamaštu, text Sd, pl. 61 artifact entry (No. P266466). (2025, August 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P266466 (Original work published 2005)

Lamaštu, text Sd, pl. 61 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P266466 (Accessed: October 11, 2026).

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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P266466},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P266466},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“Lamaštu, Text Sd, Pl. 61 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 1, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P266466.

Lamaštu, text Sd, pl. 61 artifact entry (No. P266466). (2025, August 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P266466 (Original work published 2005)

Lamaštu, text Sd, pl. 61 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P266466 (Accessed: October 11, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-11]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {aug 1},
	title = {Lama{\v s}tu, text {Sd}, pl. 61 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P266466},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P266466},
}

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