MSLF no. 271 (P228489)

Business / Contracts 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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Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 5544

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: Not preserved School; lexical; 5 lines; model contracts concerning grain. [iti]-bi-mu-bi. Reverse almost completely efaced. may be model contracts.)

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • Condition Description: Tablet frag; low right corner; rev destroyed
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  • Genre(s): Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: Not preserved School; lexical; 5 lines; model contracts concerning grain. [iti]-bi-mu-bi. Reverse almost completely efaced. may be model contracts.)
  • This text is a school text.
  • Language(s):

  • primary: MSLF, no. 271

    [LiebermanUnpubms] Lieberman, Stephen J. nd. “Manual of Sumerian Legal Forms.”

  • history: MSLF, no.271

    [LiebermanUnpubms] Lieberman, Stephen J. nd. “Manual of Sumerian Legal Forms.”

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  • Museum No.: N 5544
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-06-14 at 12:21:25 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-06-01 at 18:47:18 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Novotny, Jamie Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-01-19 at 10:11:27 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Veldhuis, Niek Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“MSLF No. 271 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P228489.
MSLF no. 271 artifact entry (No. P228489). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P228489 (Original work published 2003)
MSLF no. 271 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P228489 (Accessed: May 24, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-24]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {MSLF no. 271 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P228489},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P228489},
}


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