CBS 11588 (P266730)

Administrative tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 11588

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (W/seal impressions; Peters' #542; 6 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

Text

tablet
obverse
1. 4(disz) sar sahar#?
2. lu2 szuku-ra#?
3. igi-gun3
4. u3 e2-x
5. x x x
reverse
  broken
seal 1
1. a-ba#-{d#}suen#-[...]
2. dub#-sar#
3. dumu x-kal-la
  (following Hattori)

Text content

Genre(s) Administrative (W/seal impressions; Peters' #542; 6 lines)
Language(s) Sumerian

Chronology

Period Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Accounting Period

Seals

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

Seal Seal Number Provenience Period Date
dummy composite seal for unidentified seals (P533185) S999999 - -

Record

LOD URI https://cdli.network/entity/P266730

Physical information

Artifact type Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s) Clay
Preservation
small, cracked, 1 side preserved

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 11588
Accession Number

External resources

References

  • history: Hattori diss., p. 230 (seal)

    [Hattori2002diss] Hattori, Atsuko. 2002. “Texts and Impressions: A Holistic Approach to Ur III Cuneiform Tablets from the University of Pennsylvania Expeditions to Nippur.” Phdthesis, University of Pennsylvania.

  • history: NATN, p. 31

    [Owen1982NATN] Owen, David I. 1982. Neo-Sumerian Archival Texts Primarily from Nippur in the University Museum, the Oriental Institute and the Iraq Museum (NATN). Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns.

    catalogue


Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-23 at 10:14:41 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2024-06-12 at 09:25:16 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
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 View
2020-08-25 at 03:17:53 Firth, Richard Transliteration Firth, Richard CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2017-01-01 at 02:45:30 Firth, Richard Transliteration Firth, Richard CDLI, CDLI Approved View
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 View

Cite this Artifact

“CBS 11588 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P266730.
CBS 11588 artifact entry (No. P266730). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P266730 (Original work published 2005)
CBS 11588 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P266730 (Accessed: October 12, 2026).
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P266730},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“CBS 11588 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P266730.
CBS 11588 artifact entry (No. P266730). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P266730 (Original work published 2005)
CBS 11588 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P266730 (Accessed: October 12, 2026).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-12]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P266730},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P266730},
}

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PY  - 2024
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UR  - https://cdli.earth/P266730
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