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NATN p. 56 catalogue (P275920)

Legal 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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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 0759

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Contract; witnesses; seals; 5 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Has seal impression(s)

Text

envelope
obverse
broken
reverse
beginning broken
1'. igi ba-[la-sze3]
2'. igi me-{d}[iszkur]
3'. igi a-kal-[la]
blank space
seal impression
4'. lu2-ki-inim#-[ma-bi-me]
5'. mu ma2-[dara3-abzu {d}en-ki ba-du8]
seal 1
1. lu2-da-[mu?]
2. dumu gur-szu?-[...]

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)

Collections

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Physical Information

Artifact type: Envelope Artifact type comments:
envelope
Material: Clay
Measurements (mm):
Weight:
Artifact Preservation: fragment
Condition Description: rev. left side
Join Information:
Seal no.:
Seal information:
Artifact comments:
envelope

Text Information

Genre(s): Legal (Contract; witnesses; seals; 5 lines)
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: NATN, p. 56

[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. 281 (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.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: N 0759
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Elevation:
Stratigraphic Level:
Excavation No:
Findspot Square:
Findspot Comments:

Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.02.00.00
Alternative Years:
Date Comments:
Accounting Period: 0

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-07-23 at 10:14:41	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2024-06-12 at 09:25:16	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
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
2020-09-22 at 07:02:34	Firth, Richard	Atf	Firth, Richard		CDLI	approved
2017-01-06 at 07:17:42	Firth, Richard	Atf	Firth, Richard		CDLI	approved
2005-10-24 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Peterson, Jeremiah	Penn Museum	CDLI	approved

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Seals

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

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 004636 (composite) (P457346)	Nippur (mod. Nuffar)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Notes

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“NATN p. 56 Catalogue Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P275920.

NATN p. 56 catalogue artifact entry (No. P275920). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P275920 (Original work published 2005)

NATN p. 56 catalogue artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P275920 (Accessed: May 10, 2025).

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	month = {jul 23},
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P275920},
}

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“NATN p. 56 Catalogue Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P275920.

NATN p. 56 catalogue artifact entry (No. P275920). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P275920 (Original work published 2005)

NATN p. 56 catalogue artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P275920 (Accessed: May 10, 2025).

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	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN p. 56 catalogue artifact entry},
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