Fs Sjöberg 204-205 source d (P267067)

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

Cite

Photo

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 11933

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Ritual and liturgical > Prayer

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Ritual and liturgical > Prayer
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period	Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P267067
Permalink	https://cdli.network/entity/P267067

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	fragment joined,all edges broken,obv. rev. 2cols

Provenance

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

Collections

Collection(s)	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number	CBS 11933
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn)	586071
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	CBS.11933
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P267067
Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals (CMAwRo)	Q005060

References

primary: Fs Sjöberg (1989) p.193-205, p. 204-205 source d

[Geller1989witchcraft] Geller, Markham J. 1989. “A New Piece of Witchcraft.” In DUMU-E₂-DUB-BA-A. Studies in Honor of Åke W. Sjöberg, edited by Hermann Behrens, Darlene Loding, and Martha T. Roth, 193–205. Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund 11. Philadelphia: Samuel Noah Kramer Fund.
history: Quadsem 18 (pp. 305-326), 324, no. 5

[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, .

Large piece of a two-column tablet. Anti-witchcraft incantation

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-06-24 at 19:29:32	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-06-23 at 14:07:25	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-07-05 at 14:39:36	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-15 at 19:55:18	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	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	Artifact metadata	Englund, Robert K.; Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Frayne, Douglas R.; Peterson, Jeremiah; Veldhuis, Niek; Zimmermann, Lynn-Salammbô	Penn Museum	CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifacts

“Fs Sjöberg 204-205 Source d Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 24, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P267067.

Fs Sjöberg 204-205 source d artifact entry (No. P267067). (2024, June 24). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P267067 (Original work published 2005)

Fs Sjöberg 204-205 source d artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P267067 (Accessed: April 27, 2026).

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Cite this Artifacts

“Fs Sjöberg 204-205 Source d Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 24, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P267067.

Fs Sjöberg 204-205 source d artifact entry (No. P267067). (2024, June 24). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P267067 (Original work published 2005)

Fs Sjöberg 204-205 source d artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P267067 (Accessed: April 27, 2026).

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