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N 0830 (P275991)

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 0830

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Contract?; witesses only; seals; 3 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

  • Artifact type: Envelope Artifact type comments:

    envelope

  • Material: Clay
  • Measurements (mm):
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • Condition Description: left edge of rev.
  • Join Information:
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  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

    envelope

  • Genre(s): Legal (Contract?; witesses only; seals; 3 lines)
  • Language(s): Sumerian

  • history: Hattori diss., p. 238

    [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.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: N 0830
  • Accession No.:

  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
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
2005-10-24 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Peterson, Jeremiah Penn Museum CDLI approved View

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

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 Artifact
“N 0830 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 12, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P275991.
N 0830 artifact entry (No. P275991). (2024, June 12). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P275991 (Original work published 2005)
N 0830 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P275991 (Accessed: April 20, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-20]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jun 12},
	title = {N 0830 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P275991},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P275991},
}


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