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

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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)

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-[...]

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 & envelope
  • Material: Clay
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  • Condition Description: tablet, rev damaged, part of envelope attached
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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Museum No.: N 0820
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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 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 Approved View
2005-10-24 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact metadata 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) - -

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes: -

Cite this Artifacts

“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: February 10, 2026).
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	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN p. 58 catalogue artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P275981},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P275981},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“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: February 10, 2026).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-10]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P275981},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P275981},
}

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