NATN p. 54 catalogue (P275870)

Legal tablet 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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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 0709

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Loan of barley with interest; seals; 2x4 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. 1(asz) sze gur ur5-sze3
2. masz2 1(barig) 4(ban2)#?-[ta]
  rest broken
reverse
  beginning broken
  blank space
  seal impression
1'. iti kin-{d}inanna# [u4] 2(disz) ba-zal-la#
2'. [mu {d}szu-{d}suen] lugal-e bad3 mar-tu# [mu-du3]
seal 1
1. lugal#-[...]
2. dumu lugal-[...]

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Consult word list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • Condition Description: upper left corner
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  • Genre(s): Legal (Loan of barley with interest; seals; 2x4 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. 287 (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.

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  • Museum No.: N 0709
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.04.06.02
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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 08:20:05 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/P275870.
NATN p. 54 catalogue artifact entry (No. P275870). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P275870 (Original work published 2005)
NATN p. 54 catalogue artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P275870 (Accessed: May 12, 2025).
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P275870},
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