JavaScript is disabled or not supported in your browser. If possible, enable it for a better experience.

MHET 2/5, 620 (P509998)

Legal tablet & envelope excavated in Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 022585 & BM 017461A

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal

Language(s)

Measurements

Has seal impression(s)

Text

envelope
obverse
1. _e2_ ru-tu-tum
2. _ki_ ru-tu-tum
3. _dumu-munus_ {disz}i-zi-ga-tar
4. {disz}dumu-{iri}sza-ba-ia{ki}
5. _dumu_ dingir-szu-i-bi-szu
6. _e2_ a-na ki-is,-ri
7. a-na _mu 1(disz)-kam_
8. u2-sze-s,i2
9. _5(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_
reverse
1. _[i3]-la2-e_
2. _iti_ ti-ri-im _u4 1(u) 5(disz)-kam_
3. i-ru-ub
4. _iti_ a-bi i-ga-mar-ma
5. u2-s,i2
6. _3(disz) ezem 1(barig) kasz-hi-a_
7. i-pa-qi2-si
8. [_igi_] la-ma-sa3-ni
9. _igi_ ni-szi-i-ni-szu
left
1. _igi_ {d}utu {d}a-a
2. _mu alan_ ha-am-mu-ra-[pi2]
(transliteration of Woestenburg, AfO 44/45, 357)
seal 1
1. ru-ut-tum
2. _dumu-munus_ i-zi-ga-tar
3. _geme2 {d}utu_

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)

Collections

British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet & envelope
Material: Clay
Measurements (mm):
Weight:
Artifact Preservation:
Condition Description:
Join Information:
Seal no.:
Seal information:
Artifact comments:

Text Information

Genre(s): Legal
Language(s):

Related publications

primary: MHET 2/5, 620

[Dekiere1996MHET2/5] Dekiere, Luc. 1996. Old Babylonian Real Estate Documents from Sippar in the British Museum. Part 5: Documents without Date or with Date Lost. Mesopotamian History and Environment. Series III. Texts 2. Ghent: University of Ghent.
collation: AfO 44/45, p. 356-360, p. 357 (coll.)

[Woestenburg1998reviewMHET2/5] Woestenburg, Els. 1997/98. “Review Dekiere MHET II/5.” Archiv Für Orientforschung 44/45: 356–60.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 022585 & BM 017461A
Accession No.: 1894-01-15, 0175 & 1894-01-15, 0175A

Provenience

Provenience: Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)
Elevation:
Stratigraphic Level:
Excavation No:
Findspot Square:
Findspot Comments:

Chronology

Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Dates Referenced: --.--.--.--
Alternative Years:
Date Comments:
Accounting Period: 0

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Reviewer	Status
2025-03-02 at 16:34:03	Firth, Richard	Artifact	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	approved
2022-06-23 at 18:05:16	Foxvog, Daniel A.	Atf	Foxvog, Daniel A.	CDLI	approved
2018-05-30 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Jagersma, Bram	CDLI	approved

External Resources

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

There is no external resource for this artifact yet.

Seals

This artifact is impressed by the following seal(s):

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
dummy composite seal for unidentified seals (P533185)	-	-

Notes

General Notes: -

CDLI Notes: -

Cite this Artifact

Chicago APA Harvard BibTeX RIS

“MHET 2/5, 620 Artifact Entry.” (2018) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). March 2, 2025. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P509998.

MHET 2/5, 620 artifact entry (No. P509998). (2025, March 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P509998 (Original work published 2018)

MHET 2/5, 620 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P509998 (Accessed: March 15, 2025).

@misc{2025MHET,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-03-15]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {mar 2},
	title = {MHET 2/5, 620 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P509998},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P509998},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2025/3/2/
PY  - 2025
ID  - P509998
LB  - CDLI:P509998
M1  - 2025/3/15/
TI  - MHET 2/5, 620 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P509998
ER  -

“MHET 2/5, 620 Artifact Entry.” (2018) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). March 2, 2025. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P509998.

MHET 2/5, 620 artifact entry (No. P509998). (2025, March 2). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P509998 (Original work published 2018)

MHET 2/5, 620 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P509998 (Accessed: March 15, 2025).

@misc{2025MHET,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-03-15]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {mar 2},
	title = {MHET 2/5, 620 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P509998},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P509998},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2025/3/2/
PY  - 2025
ID  - P509998
LB  - CDLI:P509998
M1  - 2025/3/15/
TI  - MHET 2/5, 620 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P509998
ER  -

Copy to Clipboard

Resources

Composite Texts

References

Tools

MHET 2/5, 620 (P509998)

Metadata / catalogue

Flat catalogue

Expanded catalogue

Linked catalogue

Text / annotations

Text data

Linked annotations

Related publications

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

Text

Collections

Physical Information

Text Information

Related publications

Identifiers

Provenience

Chronology

Revisions and credits

External Resources

Seals

Notes

Chicago

APA

Harvard

BibTeX

RIS