JCS 32, 146, N 6079 (P228950)

Legal 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

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

N 6079 + N 6251 + N 6918

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Laws of rented oxen teacher's and student's copies preserved. Rev. lost. 9.75x6.5cm. Copy JCS 30, 146.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Has fragments

tablet
obverse
column 1'
  beginning broken
1'. [...]-ku5#
2'. [...]-ka#
3'. [...]-e#
4'. [...] gu4#
5'. [...]-ta#-an-sil2
6'. [... sa10]-am3#-ba-ka i3-la2-e
7'. tukum#-bi gu4
8'. [igi?]-bi#? ib2-ta-an-ku5
9'. [szu-ri sa10-am3]-ba#-ka
10'. [i3-la2]-e
11'. [...]
12'. [...]-x
column 2'
  beginning broken
1'. si#-bi#! ib2#-ta#-[an-ku5]
2'. igi-5(disz)-gal2 sa10#-[am3-ba-ka]
3'. i3-[la2-e]
4'. tukum-bi# [gu4]
5'. sa-sal-bi ib2-ta#-[an-sil2]
6'. igi-4(disz)-gal2 sa10-am3-ba-[ka i3-la2-e]
7'. tukum-bi [gu4]
8'. kun-bi ib2#-[ta-an-x]
9'. igi-3(disz)-gal2 sa10#?-[...]
10'. tukum-[bi gu4]
11'. x? gu2-bi# [...]
reverse
  broken

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Consult word list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Artifact Preservation: fragment
  • This artifact is composed of fragments.
  • Condition Description: Tablet fragment
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  • Genre(s): Legal (Laws of rented oxen teacher's and student's copies preserved. Rev. lost. 9.75x6.5cm. Copy JCS 30, 146.)
  • Language(s): Sumerian

  • primary: JCS 32 (pp. 127-146), 146, N 6079

    [Roth1980JCS32] Roth, Martha T. 1980. “The Scholastic Exercise ‘Laws about Rented Oxen.’” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 32 (3): 127–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/1359651.

  • history: BPOA 9, 201 (N 6251)

    [Peterson2011BPOA9] Peterson, Jeremiah. 2011. Sumerian Literary Fragments in the University Museum, Philadelphia. Biblioteca Del Próximo Oriente Antiguo 9. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

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  • Museum No.: N 6079 + N 6251 + N 6918
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-04 at 18:43:00 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-06-14 at 22:28:20 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing 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
2021-02-11 at 11:37:08 Foxvog, Daniel A. Atf Foxvog, Daniel A. CDLI approved View
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Veldhuis, Niek Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“JCS 32, 146, N 6079 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 4, 2024. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228950.
JCS 32, 146, N 6079 artifact entry (No. P228950). (2024, July 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228950 (Original work published 2003)
JCS 32, 146, N 6079 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228950 (Accessed: December 3, 2024).
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	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 4},
	title = {JCS 32, 146, {N} 6079 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228950},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P228950},
}


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