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N 4058 (P230776)

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 4058

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: OB Hh3 (animals, uzu: Hh 13-15) Model contracts: houses (rather: fields). Rev. wild animals.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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tablet
obverse
1 line traces
2. a-szag4 egir-sum la2
3. us2#-a-du {d}suen-a-sza-re-ed
4. a-sza3 {d}en-lil2-na-du
5. ki {d}en-lil-na-du-ta
6. i3-li2-isz-na-di
7. u3 ur-du6-ku3-ga
8. nam-tab-ba-ni SI? [...]
9. nam-[x]-KU#? |IGI.GAR|#? [...]
10. ib2-ta-an#-[...]
11. 4(disz) gin2 [...]
12. ku3 ki-a-[...]
1 line traces
reverse
column 1
note: all EH signs are |HIxASZ|
1'. am#-[...]
2'. [...]
3'. [...]
4'. im-[...]
5'. u2-[...]
column 2
2'. eh [...]
3'. eh a-szag4-[...]
4'. eh [...]
5'. eh nisig#
6'. eh zi3-da
7'. eh gesz-ur3-ra
8'. eh DUN
9'. nim
10'. nim# sahar-ra
1 line traces

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Consult word list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

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Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Legal > Business / Contracts (Obv: Model contract; Rev: OB Hh3 (animals, uzu: Hh 13-15) Model contracts: houses (rather: fields). Rev. wild animals.)
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

history: MSLF, no.259 unpub

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

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: N 4058
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Elevation:
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Chronology

Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Dates Referenced:
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Date Comments:
Accounting Period: 0

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-06-14 at 22:28:20	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-06-01 at 15:26:27	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune		Rattenborg, Rune	approved
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
2008-05-26 at 03:52:56	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Veldhuis, Niek	Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts	CDLI	approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

Penn Museum (572781)
Electronic Babylonian Library (N.4058)
Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (P230776)
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P230776)

Composites

This artifact is a witness to the following composite(s):

Composite	Score
CDLI Lexical 000001 (OB Nippur Ura 03) composite (P461397)	View the score

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“N 4058 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230776.

N 4058 artifact entry (No. P230776). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230776 (Original work published 2003)

N 4058 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230776 (Accessed: April 26, 2024).

@misc{2023N,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-04-26]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {N 4058 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230776},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230776},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/6/14/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P230776
LB  - CDLI:P230776
M1  - 2024/4/26/
TI  - N 4058 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230776
ER  -

“N 4058 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230776.

N 4058 artifact entry (No. P230776). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230776 (Original work published 2003)

N 4058 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230776 (Accessed: April 26, 2024).

@misc{2023N,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-04-26]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {N 4058 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230776},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230776},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/6/14/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P230776
LB  - CDLI:P230776
M1  - 2024/4/26/
TI  - N 4058 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230776
ER  -

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