OIP 016, 010 (P268338)

• Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

• Artifact type: Tablet
• Material: Clay
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• Artifact Preservation: fragment
• Condition Description: center, 2 cols.
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• Genre(s): Ritual and liturgical > Prayer (Religious (Eme-SAL); Gordon BiOr 17 p.127 says possibly Proverb Coll.12"; (Obv)(i)13x(ii)11x(Rev)(iii)5x(iv)8 lines")
• Language(s): Sumerian

• primary: OIP 16, 010

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

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• history: Quadsem 18 (pp. 305-326), 324, no. 6

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

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• 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, .

  Central fragment of a multi-column collective tablet preserving portions of the obverse and reverse. See the discussion of Michalowski Quad Sem 18 324, who compares the incantation incipit ŋiš-am3 inim-ma-am3 that occurs in i' 2'f. with the incantation catalog Rylands Library Box 24 E 5/25, line 11 (Wilcke AfO 24 14), as well as the remarks of Cavigneaux and al-Rawi ZA 83 175 n. 10

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• Museum No.: CBS 13256
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• Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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• Period: Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)
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Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

• Penn Museum (586797)
• Electronic Babylonian Library (CBS.13256)