N 2998 (P278061)
Prayer tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAMetadata / catalogue
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Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAMuseum Number
N 2998Provenience
Nippur (mod. Nuffar)Artifact Type
TabletMaterial(s)
ClayLanguage(s)
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- Artifact type: Tablet
- Material: Clay
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- Artifact Preservation: fragment
- Condition Description: center
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- Genre(s): Ritual and liturgical > Prayer (Contract?; 4x4 lines)
- Language(s): Sumerian
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citation: NABU 2013/1, NABU 2013/001,
[PetersonNABU2013/1] Peterson, Jeremiah. 2013. “A Catalog of Old Babylonian Sumerian Incantations and Rituals from Nippur in the University Museum, Philadelphia,” Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, .Small fragment of an imgida located near the bottom of the tablet, obverse and reverse preserved. Contains the subscript of a sza4 gig-ga incantation (rev. 4': [ka-inim-m]a sza3 gig-ga-[kam]).
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- Museum No.: N 2998
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- Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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- Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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| 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 |
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| 2005-10-24 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact | Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Peterson, Jeremiah | Penn Museum | CDLI | approved |
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Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:
- Penn Museum (571819) (571819)
- Electronic Babylonian Library (N.2998) (N.2998)
Cite this Artifact
@misc{2023N,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-05]},
year = {2023},
month = {feb 1},
title = {N 2998 artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P278061},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P278061},
}
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