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NATN p. 54 catalogue (P275868)

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

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Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 0708

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (Account of barley; seals; tablet: 3 lines; envelope: 5 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. [...] sze gur
2. [...] x
  rest broken
reverse
  broken
envelope
obverse
  broken
reverse
  beginning broken
1'. [...] x x
2'. [...]-la-la
3'. [lu2-inim]-ma#-bi-me
4'. [iti kin-{d}]inanna
  some text moved to next line
5'. mu us2-sa [bad3 mar]-tu ba-du3
seal 1
1. [...] x
2. lu2#?-[...]
  (rest illegible)

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Consult sign list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Consult word list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet & envelope
  • Material: Clay
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • Condition Description: with envelope attached
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  • Seal information:

    Hattori: 1. [...]-X-[...], 2'. [l]u2-[...] or [lu]gal-[...] (It is not clear how many lines are between In. 1 and In. 2')

  • Artifact comments:

  • Genre(s): Administrative (Account of barley; seals; tablet: 3 lines; envelope: 5 lines)
  • Language(s): Sumerian

  • primary: NATN, p. 54

    [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

  • history: Hattori diss., p. 363 (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.

    Hattori: Although NATN lists both N708 and N708X, there is only one N708, which is a tablet fragment with a case fragment attached.

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  • Museum No.: N 0708
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.05.06.00 (us2 year)
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  • Accounting Period: 0

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-23 at 10:14:41 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-06-12 at 09:25:16 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
2020-09-21 at 02:51:28 Firth, Richard Atf Firth, Richard CDLI approved View
2020-09-21 at 02:51:09 Firth, Richard Atf Firth, Richard CDLI approved View
2005-10-24 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Peterson, Jeremiah Penn Museum CDLI approved View

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

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

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Cite this Artifact
“NATN p. 54 Catalogue Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P275868.
NATN p. 54 catalogue artifact entry (No. P275868). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P275868 (Original work published 2005)
NATN p. 54 catalogue artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P275868 (Accessed: May 8, 2025).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-08]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN p. 54 catalogue artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P275868},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P275868},
}


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