SRU 057 (P200709)

Legal 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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Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 06196

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Ur III sale document)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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tablet
obverse
1. 1(disz) sag-munus
2. sa10-ma-ni 9(disz) gin2 igi-6(disz)-gal2 ku3-babbar
3. a2-szum2-ma ma2-lah5
4. lugal-inim-gi-na
5. dumu na-ba dam-gar3-ke4
6. in-szi-sa10
7. amar-szuba2 lu2 ku3-la2-bi
8. 1(disz) lu2-{d}nanna <<KI>>
9. dumu ur-za-ka
10. 1(disz) ur-{d}en-lil2-la2
reverse
1. 1(disz) ur-{d}da-mu
2. 1(disz) [...]-x
3. [dumu? ...]-x-si
4. 1(disz) [...]-da
5. lu2? [inim-ma-bi]-me?
6. x [...]-mu
  rest broken

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
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  • primary: SRU, 57

    [Edzard1968SRU] Edzard, Dietz Otto. 1968. Sumerische Rechtsurkunden Des III. Jahrtausends Aus Der Zeit Vor Der III. Dynastie von Ur. Abhandlungen. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Neue Folge, Heft 67. München: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

  • history: PBS 9, 041

    [Barton1915PBS9] Barton, George A. 1915. Sumerian Business and Administrative Documents from the Earliest Times to the Dynasty of Agade. Publications of the Babylonian Section 9.

  • history: FAOS 17, no. 58

    [Steinkeller1989SaleDocuments] Steinkeller, Piotr. 1989. Sale Documents of the Ur-III-Period. Vol. 17. Freiburger Altorientalische Studien. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.

  • citation: OIP 104, 311

    [Gelb1991OIP104] Gelb, Ignace J., Piotr Steinkeller, and Robert M. Whiting. 1991. Earliest Land Tenure Systems in the Near East: Ancient Kudurrus (ELTS). The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications 104. https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oip/earliest-land-tenure-systems-near-east-ancient-kudurrus.

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  • Museum No.: CBS 06196
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-03 at 16:55:41 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-01-19 at 10:02:26 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2018-03-23 at 18:53:25 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2011-07-22 at 14:32:09 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2009-06-03 at 11:24:27 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2008-01-03 at 20:29:26 Dahl, Jacob L. Atf Dahl, Jacob L. CDLI approved View
2002-07-11 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Alivernini, Sergio; Alster, Bendt; Englund, Robert K.; Molina, Manuel; Reid, Nicholas CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“SRU 057 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 3, 2024. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P200709.
SRU 057 artifact entry (No. P200709). (2024, July 3). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P200709 (Original work published 2002)
SRU 057 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P200709 (Accessed: March 13, 2025).
@misc{2024SRU,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-03-13]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 3},
	title = {SRU 057 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P200709},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P200709},
}


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