CST 038 (P107550)

Legal tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Metadata / catalogue

Flat catalogue

As CSV As TSV

Expanded catalogue

As JSON

Linked catalogue

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Text / annotations

Text data

As ATF As JTF

Linked annotations

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Related publications

As CSV As BibTeX

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

As CSV
Metadata history Transliteration history

Museum Collection(s)

John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Museum Number

JRL 0038

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. 1/3(disz) ma#-na# ku3-babbar
2. ki ad-da-kal-la-ta
3. ur-{d}en-ki-ke4
4. szu ba-ti
5. a-sza3-ga-ni
6. x-la-sze3
reverse
1. lu2#-[ra] nu-na-ab-szum2#?-ma#?-a
2. mu lugal-bi in-pa3
3. tukum-<bi> lu2 ur5
4. in-na-szum2
5. 2/3(disz) ma-na ku3-babbar
6. la-de3# mu lugal
7. in-pa3 iti sig4-ga
8. mu en {d}inanna
seal 1
1. ur-{d}en-ki
2. dumu ur-{d}en-lil2
  (mirrored)

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Consult word list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
  • Measurements (mm):
  • Weight:
  • Artifact Preservation:
  • Condition Description:
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.:
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

  • primary: CST, 38

    [Fish1932CST] Fish, Thomas. 1932. Catalogue of Sumerian Tablets in the John Rylands Library. Manchester: The Manchester University Press.

  • citation: Debt and Economic Renewal (pp. 108-135), 133 n. 16

    [Steinkeller2002Moneylending] Steinkeller, Piotr. 2002. “Money-Lending Practices in Ur III Babylonia: The Issue of Economic Motivation.” Edited by Michael Hudson and Marc Van De Mieroop. Debt and Economic Renewal in the Ancient Near East.

  • collation: MVN 12, p. 95

    [Gomi1982MVN12] Gomi, Tohru. 1982. Wirtschaftstexte Der Ur III-Zeit Aus Dem British Museum. Materiali per Il Vocabolario Neosumerico 12. Roma: Multigrafica Editrice.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: JRL 0038
  • Accession No.:

  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
  • Elevation:
  • Stratigraphic Level:
  • Excavation No:
  • Findspot Square:
  • Findspot Comments:

  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Ibbi-Suen.02.03.00
  • Alternative Years:
  • Date Comments:
  • Accounting Period: 0

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2013-07-05 at 16:38:02 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-07-22 at 13:27:21 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:10:40 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:17:40 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

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

This artifact is impressed by the following seal(s):

Seal Provenience Period Date
CDLI Seals 004873 (composite) (P457583) Nippur (mod. Nuffar) Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes: -
Cite this Artifact
“CST 038 Artifact Entry.” 2001. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 20, 2001. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107550.
CST 038 artifact entry (No. P107550). (2001, December 20). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107550
CST 038 artifact entry (2001) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107550 (Accessed: March 22, 2025).
@misc{2001CST,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-03-22]},
	year = {2001},
	month = {dec 20},
	title = {CST 038 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107550},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107550},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2001/12/20/
PY  - 2001
ID  - P107550
LB  - CDLI:P107550
M1  - 2025/3/22/
TI  - CST 038 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107550
ER  -
This website uses essential cookies that are necessary for it to work properly. These cookies are enabled by default.