OSP 1, 138 (P221638)

Administrative tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 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

CBS 06732

Period

ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative [identification uncertain]

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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tablet
obverse
column 1
1. [...]
2. [...] x
3. [1(asz@c) ur-{d}]nu-{mu4}musz#-da
  several lines missing
column 2
1. 1(asz@c) nibru{ki}-da-lu PAP
2. 1(asz@c) nin-a-na PAP
3. 1(asz@c) nin-bara2-ge PAP
4. ad-da
5. lugal-sze-gu-na PAP
6. [x]-{d}EN-ME?
7. [1(asz@c)] a-lal3 PAP
8. 1(asz@c) ur-{d}inanna PAP
  2 lines missing
column 3
1. 1(asz@c) lugal-x-[(x)]-ni he2# PAP
2. [...]
3. 1(asz@c) ama-[bara2]-ge# [(x)]
  several lines missing
reverse
column 1
  1 line blank
1. 1(asz@c) ur-ur
2. 1(asz@c) a-ul4-gal
3. 1(asz@c) ur-szubur
  1 line blank
4. a ti a ti la2

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: OSP 1, 138

    [Westenholz1975OSP1] Westenholz, Aage. 1975. Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia, Chiefly from Nippur. Part 1: Literary and Lexical Texts and the Earliest Administrative Documents from Nippur. Bibliotheca Mesopotamica, Volume 1. Malibu: Undena Publications.

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  • Museum No.: CBS 06732
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
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
2011-08-22 at 05:05:00 Foxvog, Daniel A. Atf Foxvog, Daniel A. CDLI approved View
2008-10-09 at 16:04:37 Foxvog, Daniel A. Atf Foxvog, Daniel A. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:34:55 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2003-02-26 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Alster, Bendt; Englund, Robert K.; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Guerra, Dylan; Heinle, Michael; Johnson, J. Cale CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“OSP 1, 138 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 1, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P221638.
OSP 1, 138 artifact entry (No. P221638). (2023, February 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P221638 (Original work published 2003)
OSP 1, 138 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P221638 (Accessed: January 17, 2025).
@misc{2023OSP,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-01-17]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {feb 1},
	title = {OSP 1, 138 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P221638},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P221638},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/2/1/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P221638
LB  - CDLI:P221638
M1  - 2025/1/17/
TI  - OSP 1, 138 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P221638
ER  -
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