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NATN 750 (P121447)

Letter 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 0632 + N 0731

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Letter (Letter order; seals; 3x3 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. lu2-sa6-ga
2. u3#-na#-a#-du11
3. [...] x
  rest broken
reverse
  beginning broken
1'. [...] x
2'. inim na-ni ba-e-da im-ni-{d}iszkur
seal 1
1. x-[...]
2. dub#-[sar]
3. dumu ur-AN#-[...]

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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  • Condition Description: frag, upper edge
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  • Seal information:

    Hattori: 1. X-[...], 2. [d]ub-[sar], 3. dumu ur-D[INGI]R-[...]

  • Artifact comments:

  • Genre(s): Letter (Letter order; seals; 3x3 lines)
  • Language(s): Sumerian

  • primary: NATN, 750

    [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.

  • history: Hattori diss., p. 371 (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.

  • history: NATN, p. 55

    [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 (N 731)

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  • Museum No.: N 0632 + N 0731
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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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
2023-01-19 at 09:57:24 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2020-09-21 at 10:56:30 Firth, Richard Atf Firth, Richard CDLI approved View
2011-07-22 at 13:48:32 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:25:01 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:23:02 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI 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 750 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P121447.
NATN 750 artifact entry (No. P121447). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P121447 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 750 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P121447 (Accessed: May 13, 2025).
@misc{2024NATN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-13]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 750 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P121447},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P121447},
}


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