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CTMMA 1, 054 (P273559)

Legal tablet dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA

Museum Number

MMA 86.11.320

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 1(disz) _sag-geme2_ a-ha-ta-ni _mu-[ni-im_]
2. {iri}na-me-e-su-hi{ki#}
3. _sag#-geme2_ ARAD2-{d}ul-masz-szi-tum _dumu_ ip-qa2-tum
4. _ki#_ ARAD2-{d}ul-masz-szi-tum _dumu_ ip-qa2-tum
5. be2#-li-sza
6. ARAD2-{d}marduk
7. _in#-szi-in-sza10_
8. _sa10# til-la-bi-sze3_
9. [_n] gin2 ku3-babbar in-na-an-la2_
10. [u3 _igi-n]-gal2# ku3-babbar si-bi#_
11. [isz]-ku-un
reverse
beginning broken
1'. [...] x
broken
1". [...]-ib-ni
2". [...]-x-sze-mi
3". [...] _dumu_ i3-li2-i-din-nam
blank space
4". _iti du6-ku3 u4 7(disz)-kam_
5". _mu_ am-mi-s,a-du-qa2 _lugal-e sipa zi sze-ga {d}utu {d}marduk-bi-da_
seal 1
1. ARAD#-{d}ul-masz#-[szi-tum]
2. dumu# ip-qa-[tum]
3. ARAD {d}x-[...]

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Consult sign list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Consult word list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Legal
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Related publications

primary: CTMMA 1, p.64-87, 54

[Sigrist1988commercial] Sigrist, Marcel. 1988. “Old Babylonian Texts (Nos. 48-70): Commercial and Legal Texts (Nos. 48-68).” In Tablets, Cones, and Bricks of the Third and Second Millennia B.C., edited by Ira Spar, 64–87. Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 1. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Museum No.: MMA 86.11.320
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Chronology

Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Reviewer	Status
2024-10-27 at 16:32:14	Firth, Richard	Artifact	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	approved
2024-07-04 at 14:00:41	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	approved
2018-08-14 at 11:20:23	Woestenburg, Els	Atf	Woestenburg, Els	CDLI	approved
2005-08-05 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	CDLI	CDLI	approved

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Seals

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

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

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“CTMMA 1, 054 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 27, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P273559.

CTMMA 1, 054 artifact entry (No. P273559). (2024, October 27). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P273559 (Original work published 2005)

CTMMA 1, 054 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P273559 (Accessed: July 15, 2025).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-07-15]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 27},
	title = {CTMMA 1, 054 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P273559},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P273559},
}

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“CTMMA 1, 054 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 27, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P273559.

CTMMA 1, 054 artifact entry (No. P273559). (2024, October 27). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P273559 (Original work published 2005)

CTMMA 1, 054 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P273559 (Accessed: July 15, 2025).

@misc{2024CTMMA,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-07-15]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 27},
	title = {CTMMA 1, 054 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P273559},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P273559},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/10/27/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P273559
LB  - CDLI:P273559
M1  - 2025/7/15/
TI  - CTMMA 1, 054 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P273559
ER  -

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