N 0826 (P275987)

Administrative 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

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 0826

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (Account; seals; 3x3 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

Text

tablet
obverse
1. sze bappir3 [...]
2. lugal-nam-[...]
3. ki lugal#-[...]
  rest broken
reverse
  beginning broken
  blank space
  seal impression
1'. mu bad3 gal nibru{ki} ba-du3
seal 1
1. lugal-nin-dingir-[...]
2. dumu la-al-la

Text content

Genre(s) Administrative (Account; seals; 3x3 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/P275987

Physical information

Artifact type Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s) Clay
Preservation fragment
upper end

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 0826
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource Identifiers
Penn Museum (Penn) 569565
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) N.826

References

  • history: Hattori diss., p. 305 (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
2024-06-12 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
2021-08-06 at 10:40:17 Firth, Richard Transliteration Firth, Richard CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2017-01-09 at 11:14:16 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

“N 0826 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 12, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P275987.
N 0826 artifact entry (No. P275987). (2024, June 12). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P275987 (Original work published 2005)
N 0826 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P275987 (Accessed: October 31, 2026).
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P275987},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“N 0826 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 12, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P275987.
N 0826 artifact entry (No. P275987). (2024, June 12). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P275987 (Original work published 2005)
N 0826 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P275987 (Accessed: October 31, 2026).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-31]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jun 12},
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P275987},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P275987},
}

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PY  - 2024
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LB  - CDLI:P275987
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