NATN 938 (P121635)

Letter tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 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

UM 55-21-223

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Letter (Letter order; 5x1 line; 4.5x3.9)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. nig2#-u2-rum
2. u3-na-a-du11
3. 1(disz) masz2
4. za-su-ma
5. he2-na-ab-szum2-mu
reverse
1. na-mi-gur-re
  blank space
  seal impression
seal 1
1. {d}nansze-kam
2. dumu lugal#-szu-da-ri2

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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
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  • Genre(s): Letter (Letter order; 5x1 line; 4.5x3.9)
  • Language(s): Sumerian

  • primary: NATN, 938

    [Owen1982NATN] Owen, David I. 1982. Neo-Sumerian Archival Texts Primarily from Nippur in the University Museum, the Oriental Institute and the Iraq Museum (NATN). Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns.

  • history: OrNS 40, p.386-400, p. 393 7

    [Owen1971letter-orders] Owen, David I. 1971. “Ur III Letter-Orders from Nippur in the University Museum.” Orientalia NS 40: 386–400.

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  • Museum No.: UM 55-21-223
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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  • Excavation No: 3N-T0051
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-23 at 10:14:41 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-01-19 at 09:57:24 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2016-12-05 at 21:26:50 Englund, Robert K. Atf Ozaki Tohru CDLI approved View
2011-07-22 at 13:48:49 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:25:12 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2009-06-03 at 10:32:50 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:23:09 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

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

Seal Provenience Period Date
CDLI Seals 005619 (composite) (P458329) Nippur (mod. Nuffar) Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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Cite this Artifact
“NATN 938 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 23, 2024. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P121635.
NATN 938 artifact entry (No. P121635). (2024, July 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P121635 (Original work published 2001)
NATN 938 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P121635 (Accessed: April 8, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-08]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 23},
	title = {NATN 938 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P121635},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P121635},
}


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