N 3398 (P278433)

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, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 3398

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Ritual and liturgical > Prayer (6 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • Condition Description: right edge
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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 central fragment with only one side preserved. Incantation collective preserving the subscript [ka-ini]m-ma GIR2-GI[R2 ...] and the beginning of another incantation.

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  • Museum No.: N 3398
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
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

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Cite this Artifact
“N 3398 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 1, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P278433.
N 3398 artifact entry (No. P278433). (2023, February 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P278433 (Original work published 2005)
N 3398 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P278433 (Accessed: May 10, 2025).
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P278433},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P278433},
}


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