MSL 10, 144 E (P228694)

Lexical 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

UM 29-15-977 + UM 29-16-586

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical (Obv: OB Hh4 (stones, plants, fish, birds, clothing: Hh 16-19); Rev: OB Hh1 (gi_ School exercise; Nippur forerunner to Hh XIX; 13x20x15.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Text

tablet
obverse
column 1
1. [siki] sza3 sig
2. siki sza3 sig tab-ba
3. siki sza3 sig nu-[nu]
4. siki gu2-[...]
5. siki gu2 kesz2#-[...]
6. siki dah-hu#-[um]
7. siki kur-[ra]
8. siki mar-[tu]
9. siki [uri]
10. siki szu-[bir4]
11. siki sa10#-[ma]
12. siki x [...]
13. siki [...]
14. siki x [...]
15. siki x [...]
reverse
column 1
beginning broken
1'. gesz KU-[...]
2'. gesz KU-{gesz}[...]
3'. gesz x [...]
4'. gesz pa#-[...]
5'. gesz pa-[...]
6'. gesz dalla2#
7'. gesz mud#-[...]
8'. gesz ze2-[...]
9'. gesz zu2-[...]
10'. gesz zu2-[...]
11'. gesz TUG2-[...]
12'. gesz pi-el-[...]
13'. gesz u3-luh#-[...]
n lines broken
14'. gesz [...]
15'. gesz asal2#
16'. gesz asal2#-[...]
17'. gesz asal2#-[...]
18'. gesz NE-asal2#
19'. gesz numun-asal2#
20'. gesz il-[...]
21'. gesz kiszi16#
22'. gesz [ad2]
23'. gesz ad2-[...]
24'. gesz ad2-har-[...]
25'. gesz sa-ma-num2#
26'. gesz sa-ma-[...]
27'. gesz pesz7-[...]
28'. gesz szu-[...]
column 2
beginning broken
1'. gesz szi-ig#-dum
2'. gesz |LAGABxX|-si
3'. gesz mu#-tum-da
4'. gesz gi-zu2-lum-ma
5'. gesz BU-zu2-lum-ma
6'. gesz dili-bu-um
7'. gesz an-tag
8'. gesz husz
9'. gesz masz
10'. gesz [...]
11'. gesz masz-gurum
12'. gesz guru5-usz
13'. gesz sag-EZEN
14'. gesz si-sag-EZEN
15'. gesz i-ri9-na
16'. gesz a-i-ri9#-na#
17'. gesz# gilim#-an-na
18'. [gesz ...] x [...]
19'. [gesz ...] x [...]
20'. [gesz ...]
21'. [gesz ...]
22'. [...] as4#-[...]
23'. gesz |LAGABxA|-da#
24'. gesz dab5-dab5#
25'. gesz u5
26'. gesz {d}ha-ia3
27'. gesz dub-ba
28'. gesz szumun-gi4
29'. gesz ti-bala
30'. gesz SZID-ma
31'. gesz MA
32'. gesz ba
33'. gesz ba-amar
34'. gesz ba-sze
35'. gesz ba-PA-SZE
36'. gesz ba-PA
37'. gesz hub2
38'. gesz na-ru2-a
39'. [...] eszkiri#-ME-szu-du7
40'. [...]-na#-UD
41'. [...] gu#-za
42'. [...]-sag10

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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Artifact Preservation: fragment
Condition Description: Tablet frag, rev 2 cols
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Text Information

Genre(s): Lexical (Obv: OB Hh4 (stones, plants, fish, birds, clothing: Hh 16-19); Rev: OB Hh1 (gi_ School exercise; Nippur forerunner to Hh XIX; 13x20x15.)
This text is a school text.
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: MSL 10, 144 E

[Landsberger1970MSL10] Reiner, Erica, and Benno Landsberger. 1970. Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon 10.
history: Veldhuis EEN, p. 300, p. 324

[Veldhuis1997EEN] Veldhuis, Niek. 1997. “Elementary Education at Nippur. The Lists of Trees and Wooden Objects.” Phdthesis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: UM 29-15-977 + UM 29-16-586
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Provenience

Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Chronology

Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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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 15:22:11	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
2018-10-10 at 08:44:22	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Atf	McGrath, William		CDLI	approved
2017-10-11 at 05:31:28	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Atf	Pagé-Perron, Émilie		CDLI	approved
2017-02-15 at 20:03:50	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2013-12-30 at 09:01:47	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2008-05-26 at 02:30:03	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

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Penn Museum (566836)
Penn Museum (566835)
Electronic Babylonian Library (UM.29-15-977)
Electronic Babylonian Library (UM.29-16-586)
Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (P228694)
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (P228694)

Composites

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

Composite	Score
CDLI Lexical 000039 (OB Nippur Ura 01) composite (P498269)	View the score

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“MSL 10, 144 E Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228694.

MSL 10, 144 E artifact entry (No. P228694). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228694 (Original work published 2003)

MSL 10, 144 E artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228694 (Accessed: April 25, 2024).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228694},
}

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