YOS 20, 003 (P303990)

Business / Contracts tablet excavated in Uruk (mod. Warka), dated to the Hellenistic (323-63 BC) period and now kept in Newell Collections of Babylonian Tablets, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Newell Collections of Babylonian Tablets, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Museum Number

NCBT 01953

Period

Hellenistic (323-63 BC)

Provenience

Uruk (mod. Warka)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Contract work contract concerning date orchard)

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

65.0 mm × 70.0 mm × 23.0 mm

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal > Business / Contracts (Contract work contract concerning date orchard)
Language(s)	Akkadian

Chronology

Period	Hellenistic (323-63 BC)
Dates Referenced	HE.SE.012.07.04
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P303990
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P303990

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions	65.0 mm × 70.0 mm × 23.0 mm
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation	50% (Surface: Poor)

Provenance

Provenience	Uruk (mod. Warka)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	Newell Collections of Babylonian Tablets, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Museum Number	NCBT 01953
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Yale Babylonian Collection (YBC)	BC-036499
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	NCBT.1953

References

primary: YOS 20, 3

[Doty2012YOS20] Doty, L. Timothy, and Ronald Wallenfels. 2012. Cuneiform Documents from Hellenistic Uruk. Yale Oriental Series. Babylonian Texts, Vol. 20. New Haven: Yale University Press.
history: Doty diss., 170-72

[Doty1977HellenisticUruk] Doty, L. Timothy. 1977. “Cuneiform Archives from Hellenistic Uruk.” Phdthesis, Yale University.
history: JCS 30 (pp. 65-90), 66-67

[Doty1978JCS30] Doty, L. Timothy. 1978. “The Archive of the Nanâ-Iddin Family from Uruk.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 30 (2): 65–90. https://doi.org/10.2307/1359967.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-09-09 at 13:29:26	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-07-11 at 16:05:05	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:03:51	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2006-02-08 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Englund, Robert K.; Guerra, Dylan; Middeke-Conlin, Robert; Pace, Carl	Yale Babylonian Collection	CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“YOS 20, 003 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 9, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P303990.

YOS 20, 003 artifact entry (No. P303990). (2024, September 9). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P303990 (Original work published 2006)

YOS 20, 003 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P303990 (Accessed: September 10, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P303990},
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Cite this Artifact

“YOS 20, 003 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 9, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P303990.

YOS 20, 003 artifact entry (No. P303990). (2024, September 9). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P303990 (Original work published 2006)

YOS 20, 003 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P303990 (Accessed: September 10, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-09-10]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {sep 9},
	title = {YOS 20, 003 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P303990},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P303990},
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