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MDP 28, 399 (P494977)

Legal tablet excavated in Susa (mod. Shush), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Louvre Museum, Paris, France

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Chemical Data

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Museum Collection(s)

Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Museum Number

Sb 24638

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Susa (mod. Shush)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal

Language(s)

Akkadian

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. {disz}{d}suen#-[...]
2. asz-szum wa-ar#-[ka-su2]
3. a-na ta-ri-[ri]
4. _dumu-[munus_-szu] i-di-[isz-szi-im]
5. szu-gu#-gu
6. it-ba-am-ma#
7. um-ma ta-ri-ri#
8. a-na szu-gu-gu [it-ma]
9. at-ta-ma mu-ti#
10. at-ta-ma ma-ri
11. at-ta-ma ap-li
12. u3 at-ta-hu-bi-ti-[ir]
13. i-ra-am-ka-ma
14. i-pa-la-ah-ka-ma#
15. _e2_ ku-ru-usz-tu3#-um
16. ni-isz ba-la-isz-sza-an
17. ni-isz ku-ku-sa-ni-it
18. u3 ni-isz na-pi-ri-sza
19. ta-ri-ri
20. a-na szu-gu-gu
21. it#-ma
22. szu-gu-gu
reverse
1. a-na _lugal_
2. u3 ni-isz _dingir_
3. ip-la-ah-ma
4. _e2_ i-pu-usz
5. _2/3(disz) ma-na 4(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_
6. _szu ti-a_ ta-ri-ri
7. _8(disz) gin2_ at#-ta-hu-bi-ti-ir
8. _3(u) sze gur_
9. a-na ah! ta-ri-ri
10. szu-gu-gu
11. i-di-in
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Collections

Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Legal
Language(s): Akkadian

Related publications

primary: MDP 28, 399

[Scheil1939MDP28] Scheil, Vincent. 1939. Mélanges Épigraphiques. Mémoires de La Mission Archéologique de Perse 28. Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux.
history: Akkadica 139, p.159-178, p. 171-172

[Badamchi2018elderly] Badamchi, Hossein. 2018. “The Care of the Elderly in Susa. A Study in the Akkadian Documents from the Sukkalmah Period.” Akkadica 139: 159–78.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: Sb 24638
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Susa (mod. Shush)
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Chronology

Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status	Action
2021-09-10 at 13:37:33	Jagersma, Bram	Atf	Jagersma, Bram		CDLI	approved
2015-12-02 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Wagensonner, Klaus		CDLI	approved

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Cite this Artifact

“MDP 28, 399 Artifact Entry.” 2015. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 2, 2015. https://cdli.earth/P494977.

MDP 28, 399 artifact entry (No. P494977). (2015, December 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P494977

MDP 28, 399 artifact entry (2015) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P494977 (Accessed: January 18, 2026).

@misc{2015MDP,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-18]},
	year = {2015},
	month = {dec 2},
	title = {MDP 28, 399 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P494977},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P494977},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2015/12/2/
PY  - 2015
ID  - P494977
LB  - CDLI:P494977
M1  - 2026/1/18/
TI  - MDP 28, 399 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P494977
ER  -

Cite this Artifact

“MDP 28, 399 Artifact Entry.” 2015. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 2, 2015. https://cdli.earth/P494977.

MDP 28, 399 artifact entry (No. P494977). (2015, December 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P494977

MDP 28, 399 artifact entry (2015) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P494977 (Accessed: January 18, 2026).

@misc{2015MDP,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-18]},
	year = {2015},
	month = {dec 2},
	title = {MDP 28, 399 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P494977},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P494977},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2015/12/2/
PY  - 2015
ID  - P494977
LB  - CDLI:P494977
M1  - 2026/1/18/
TI  - MDP 28, 399 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P494977
ER  -