NATN p. 58 catalogue (P275981)

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

Photo

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 0820

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (Loan of barley with interest; seals; 6x5 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

Text

tablet
obverse
1. 1(u) 6(asz) sze gur ur5-sze3
2. [masz2]-bi#-sze3 3(disz) udu-nita [n] sila4# 1(disz) masz2 mu-kux(DU)
3. [...] e2# {d}szu-zi-an-ta
4. lugal#-ezem
5. szu# ba-ti
reverse
1. sze-bi iti szu-numun
2. gi4-gi4-da
3. mu# lugal#-bi# in#-[pa3]
  rest broken
envelope
  (small fragment only)
seal 1
  (beginning illegible)
1'. dumu [...]
2'. nu-[...]

Text content

Genre(s) Administrative (Loan of barley with interest; seals; 6x5 lines)
Language(s) Sumerian

Chronology

Period Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Accounting Period

Seals

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

Seal Seal Number Provenience Period Date
dummy composite seal for unidentified seals (P533185) S999999 - -

Record

LOD URI https://cdli.network/entity/P275981

Physical information

Artifact type Tablet & envelope
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s) Clay
Preservation
tablet, rev damaged, part of envelope attached

Provenance

Provenience Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s) Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum Number N 0820
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource Identifiers
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS) 166869
Penn Museum (Penn) 569561
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) N.820

References

  • primary: NATN, p. 58

    [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. 364 (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.

Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-23 at 10:14:41 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2024-06-12 at 09:25:16 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2023-01-21 at 07:48:15 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact metadata Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie Approved View
2020-09-23 at 01:44:54 Firth, Richard Transliteration Firth, Richard CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2005-10-24 at 00:00:00 CDLI, CDLI Artifact metadata Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Peterson, Jeremiah Penn Museum CDLI, CDLI Approved View

Cite this Artifact

“NATN p. 58 Catalogue Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P275981.
NATN p. 58 catalogue artifact entry (No. P275981). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P275981 (Original work published 2005)
NATN p. 58 catalogue artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P275981 (Accessed: October 14, 2026).
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Cite this Artifact

“NATN p. 58 Catalogue Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P275981.
NATN p. 58 catalogue artifact entry (No. P275981). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P275981 (Original work published 2005)
NATN p. 58 catalogue artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P275981 (Accessed: October 14, 2026).
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P275981},
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