CDLI Lexical 000001, ex. 017 (P227986)

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

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

Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 04842 + CBS 08103

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical, Scholarly or scientific > Mathematical (Obv: Mathematical table or list; OB Nippur Ura 03 (witness) Lexical, list of animals?; (i)12x(ii)11 lines, 72 x 55 x 17. Unidentified. UZU? $EM?; Unusually thin for a type II tablet. Obverse exercise is almost completely lost. Empty space on right side is used for numerical exercise. Reverse writing is very beauti)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has fragments Witness

tablet
reverse
  columns left to right
column 1
1'. [...]-a
2'. [...]-ga
3'. [...] gun3
4'. [...]-gilim#-ma
5'. [...]-gilim-ma
6'. [...] dug# sila3 gaz-gaz
7'. [{d}]nin#-ka6
8'. [{d}]nin-ka6-masz-masz
9'. [...]-|KAxX|-na
10'. [...]-SZID
11'. [...]-x LAGAB
12'. uh#
  1 line missing
14'. [...]-gi4#
  3 lines traces
column 2
1'. uzu# [...]
2'. uzu# [...]
3'. uzu# [...]
4'. uzu# [...]
5'. uzu# [...]
6'. uzu# [...]
7'. uzu# [...]
8'. uzu# [...]
9'. uzu# [...]
10'. uzu [...] gu2-[...]
  1 line missing
12'. [...] za3#-DIB#
13'. uzu# sil3 za3-DIB
14'. uzu ma-sil3
15'. uzu si ma-sil3
16'. uzu ma-sil3-tum#
17'. uzu ti

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)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
  • Measurements (mm):
  • Weight:
  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • This artifact is composed of fragments.
  • Condition Description: Tablet frag,ctr.part,1 side preserved,ruled,2 cols
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.:
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

  • Genre(s): Lexical, Scholarly or scientific > Mathematical (Obv: Mathematical table or list; OB Nippur Ura 03 (witness) Lexical, list of animals?; (i)12x(ii)11 lines, 72 x 55 x 17. Unidentified. UZU? $EM?; Unusually thin for a type II tablet. Obverse exercise is almost completely lost. Empty space on right side is used for numerical exercise. Reverse writing is very beauti)
  • Language(s): Sumerian


  • history: OIP 11,, p. 014, CBS 04842 +

    [Chiera1929OIP11] Chiera, Edward. 1929. Sumerian Lexical Texts from the Temple School of Nippur. Vol. 1. Oriental Institute Publications. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oip/oip-11-cuneiform-series-volume-i-sumerian-lexical-texts-temple-school.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: CBS 04842 + CBS 08103
  • Accession No.:

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

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-06-14 at 12:21:25 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-06-01 at 15:22:11 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune Rattenborg, Rune approved View
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
2015-06-15 at 19:44:45 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2008-05-26 at 02:03:16 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Veldhuis, Niek Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts CDLI approved View

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

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

Composite Score
CDLI Lexical 000001 (OB Nippur Ura 03) composite (P461397) View the score

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes:

P227986 leadP227986 lead

Cite this Artifact
“CDLI Lexical 000001, Ex. 017 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P227986.
CDLI Lexical 000001, ex. 017 artifact entry (No. P227986). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P227986 (Original work published 2003)
CDLI Lexical 000001, ex. 017 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P227986 (Accessed: March 29, 2024).
@misc{2023CDLI,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-03-29]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {CDLI {Lexical} 000001, ex. 017 artifact entry},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P227986},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/6/14/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P227986
LB  - CDLI:P227986
M1  - 2024/3/29/
TI  - CDLI Lexical 000001, ex. 017 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P227986
ER  - 
This website uses essential cookies that are necessary for it to work properly. These cookies are enabled by default.