BE 17/1, 024 (P270001)

Letter tablet & envelope excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 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 19793 (cast: CBS 09501 ?)

Period

Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Letter (Letter; Kalbu to his lord, about the water shortage & request for the return of his servant; (Obv)19x(LoE)4x(Rev)14 lines; *case lost; 70 X 100 X 25 mm.)

Language(s)

Akkadian

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  • Artifact type: Tablet & envelope
  • Material: Clay
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  • Condition Description: Tablet and Case, tablet:lower LE&RE.broken
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  • Genre(s): Letter (Letter; Kalbu to his lord, about the water shortage & request for the return of his servant; (Obv)19x(LoE)4x(Rev)14 lines; *case lost; 70 X 100 X 25 mm.)
  • Language(s): Akkadian

  • primary: BE 17/1,, 024

    [Radau1908BE17/1] Radau, Hugo. 1908. Letters to the Cassite Kings from the Temple Archives of Nippur. Babylonian Expedition 17/1.

  • history: LFM, pp.116f.

    [Oppenheim1967LFM] Oppenheim, A. Leo. 1967. Letters from Mesopotamia: Official Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

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  • Museum No.: CBS 19793 (cast: CBS 09501 ?)
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-26 at 10:47:15 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-07-26 at 10:46:27 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-01-21 at 07:48:15 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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This artifact is impressed by the following seal(s):

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dummy composite seal for unidentified seals (P533185) - -

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Cite this Artifact
“BE 17/1, 024 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 26, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P270001.
BE 17/1, 024 artifact entry (No. P270001). (2024, July 26). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P270001 (Original work published 2005)
BE 17/1, 024 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P270001 (Accessed: May 12, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-12]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 26},
	title = {BE 17/1, 024 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P270001},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P270001},
}


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