EEN 310, UM 29-15-314+ (P228624)

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

UM 29-15-314 + UM 29-15-320

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical (Obv: OB Hh4 (stones, plants, fish, birds, clothing: Hh 16-19); Rev: OB Hh1 (gi_ School exercise; personal names; gish?; 13x0x15x19x11x0 lines. Obv. has plants, SAR section (does not correspond to any other version!): gi#-ma# SAR gi#-ma#-gur//2 SAR nu-luh-ha SAR gi#-nu-luh-ha SAR (some items undeciphered) nu-me-ir-kaskal SAR)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has fragments Witness

reverse
column 1
  2 lines missing
3. gesz nu11#
4. gesz ha#-[...]
5. gesz sza3#-[...]
6. gesz kin2#
7. gesz gi6#
8. gesz gesztin#
9. gesz gesztin#-[...]
10. gesz gesztin-ka5-[...]
11. gesz gesztin-ma
12. gesz pesz3
13. gesz haszhur
14. gesz haszhur#-kur-ra
15. gesz sze-du10
16. gesz sze-nu
17. gesz sze-sze
18. gesz szinig#
19. gesz [...]
20. gesz [...]
column 2
1. gesz szar4(NE)-sza4#-[...]
2. gesz MES-szarx(NE)-sza4-bid3
3. gesz lam
4. gesz LAM
5. gesz u3-suh5#
6. [...]-u3-suh5
7. gesz bir#-GAM-[...]-e
8. gesz szim#-gig#
9. gesz szennur#
10. gesz lam#-gal
11. gesz lam#-tur#
  9 lines illegible
21. gesz [...]
22. gesz ma-nu
23. gesz ma-nu-szu-[...] AK
24. gesz ma-nu-X [...] AK
  1 line illegible
column 3
1. gesz KID-da
2. gesz KID-da
3. gesz KID-[...]-la2
4. gesz mes
5. gesz mes-ma2-gan-[...]
6. gesz [...]-ha
7. gesz# erin
8. gesz szu#-ur2#-[...]
9. gesz za-ba-[...]
10. gesz e-[...]

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:
  • This artifact is composed of fragments.
  • Condition Description: Tablet, obv 2 cols, rev 4 cols
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.:
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

  • Genre(s): Lexical (Obv: OB Hh4 (stones, plants, fish, birds, clothing: Hh 16-19); Rev: OB Hh1 (gi_ School exercise; personal names; gish?; 13x0x15x19x11x0 lines. Obv. has plants, SAR section (does not correspond to any other version!): gi#-ma# SAR gi#-ma#-gur//2 SAR nu-luh-ha SAR gi#-nu-luh-ha SAR (some items undeciphered) nu-me-ir-kaskal SAR)
  • This text is a school text.
  • Language(s): Sumerian


  • primary: Veldhuis EEN, p. 310, UM 29-15-314+

    [Veldhuis1997EEN] Veldhuis, Niek. 1997. “Elementary Education at Nippur. The Lists of Trees and Wooden Objects.” Phdthesis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: UM 29-15-314 + UM 29-15-320
  • 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 22:28:20 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
2008-05-26 at 02:27:35 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

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

Composite Score
CDLI Lexical 000039 (OB Nippur Ura 01) composite (P498269) View the score

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes:

P228624 leadP228624 lead

Cite this Artifact
“EEN 310, UM 29-15-314+ Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228624.
EEN 310, UM 29-15-314+ artifact entry (No. P228624). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228624 (Original work published 2003)
EEN 310, UM 29-15-314+ artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228624 (Accessed: December 4, 2024).
@misc{2023EEN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-12-04]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {EEN 310, {UM} 29-15-314+ artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228624},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228624},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/6/14/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P228624
LB  - CDLI:P228624
M1  - 2024/12/4/
TI  - EEN 310, UM 29-15-314+ artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228624
ER  - 
This website uses essential cookies that are necessary for it to work properly. These cookies are enabled by default.