NATN p. 56 catalogue (P275926)

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 0765

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Loan of silver without interest; seals; 5x7x1(u.e.) lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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tablet
obverse
1. [n] gin2# ku3-babbar
2. masz2 nu-tuku
3. [ki] x-ezem-ta
4. si#-du3
5. szu ba-ti
reverse
1. [iti ...]-x gi4-gi4-da
2. [mu lugal]-bi in-pa3
3. [igi ...]-{d}suen
4. [igi ...]-x-bi
5. [lu2-inim-m]a-bi-me
6. [iti? ab?]-e3#?
  or iti gan-gan-e3
7. [mu ma-da] za-ab-[sza-li{ki} ba]-hul
seal 1
1. si-du3
2. dumu {d}gu-la
  (lines 1 and 2 inscribed in reverse order)

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: right half
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  • Genre(s): Legal (Loan of silver without interest; seals; 5x7x1(u.e.) lines)
  • Language(s): Sumerian

  • 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. 324 (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 0765
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.07.10.00 ?
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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
2020-09-22 at 07:03:19 Firth, Richard Atf Firth, Richard CDLI approved View
2017-01-15 at 08:26:42 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
CDLI Seals 004673 (composite) (P457383) Nippur (mod. Nuffar) Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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Cite this Artifact
“NATN p. 56 Catalogue Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P275926.
NATN p. 56 catalogue artifact entry (No. P275926). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P275926 (Original work published 2005)
NATN p. 56 catalogue artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P275926 (Accessed: May 14, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-14]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN p. 56 catalogue artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P275926},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P275926},
}


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