CDLI Literary 000821, ex. 019 (P230885)

Wisdom or proverb 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 5925

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Literary > Wisdom or proverb (ETCSL 6.02.01 Proverbs from Nippur (witness) proverbs; 4 lines)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Witness

  • Artifact type: Tablet Artifact type comments:

    lentil

  • Material: Clay
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  • Condition Description: Rev: Not inscribed
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    lentil

  • history: Alster Proverbs, 304, N 5925

    [AlsterProverbs1997] Alster, Bendt. 1997. Proverbs of Ancient Sumer: The World’s Earliest Proverb Collection.

  • history: Falkowitz AfO 29/30, 035

    [FalkowitzAfO29] N.d. Archiv Für Orientforschung.

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  • Museum No.: N 5925
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-06-14 at 22:28:20 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing 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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This artifact is a witness to the following composite(s):

Composite Score
CDLI Literary 000821 (Proverbs from Nippur) composite (P481013) View the score

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Cite this Artifact
“CDLI Literary 000821, Ex. 019 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230885.
CDLI Literary 000821, ex. 019 artifact entry (No. P230885). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230885 (Original work published 2003)
CDLI Literary 000821, ex. 019 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230885 (Accessed: April 18, 2024).
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	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
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	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230885},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P230885},
}


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