Written Artefact Metadata
Object type: Enveloped clay tablet
Material: Clay
Writing: Cuneiform writing
Language: Old Assyrian
Nature of the text: Loan contract
Provenience: Kanesh (mod. Kültepe)
Period/Date: Old Assyrian (ca. 1920-1850 BCE)
Country of discovery: Türkiye
Dimensions: Height: 5 cm; Width: 4.3 cm; Depth: 2.7 cm
Museum/Collection: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Türkiye
Excavation number: Kt 93/k 550
Publication number (envelope): forthcoming
Transliteration of the tablet inside the envelope
Ob.11 ma-na kù-babbar li-tí 2i-ṣé-er Ša-ak-du-nu-/a 3A-šur-ták-lá-ku 4i-šu 15 gín kù-babbar 55 na-ru-uq še-um 6ù 5 na-ru-uq gig 7ṣí-ba-sú : a-na 8ha-ar-pé : i-ša-qál lo.e.9iš-tù ha-muš-tim rev.10ša A-šur-i-mì-tí 11iti-kam : ša Sá!(KI)-ra-tim 12li-mu-um 13E-na-ma-nim 141 ma-na kù-babbar 15ší-im-tám a-na e-tí-šu 16i-ša-qal : šu-ma 17lá iš-qul ki-a-ma 18ṣí-ib-tám u.e.19ú-ṣa-áb igi Bu-li-/na le.e.20igi Pè-er-wa 21 igi Puzur4-A-na
Translation of the tablet in the envelope
Aššur -taklāku has loaned 1 mina of litum-quality silver to Šakdunuwa. He will pay 15 shekels of silver, 5 sacks of barley and 5 sacks of wheat, its interest, at the harvest time. From the week of Aššur-imittī, month ša Sarratim (ii), eponym Ennamānum. He will pay the amount agreed on at his term. If he has not paid, he will add the interest accordingly. In the presence of Bulina, of Perwa, and of Puzur-Ana.
Structure and data
00_Photos.zip:
Photos of the enveloped tablet from all sides.
Kt93k550aLe.jpg
Kt93k550aLoe.jpg
Kt93k550aOb.jpg
Kt93k550aRe.jpg
Kt93k550aReBis.jpg
Kt93k550aRev.jpg
Kt93k550aUe.jpg
01_VolumeData.zip:
3D tomographic reconstruction volume data.
017_93k550_reconstruction_crop.nxs
02_Visualisations.zip:
Geometry files of the tablet and envelope (.ply) and internal format files (.exa).
017_93k550_3.exa
017_93k550_3_medianw_0.015_32_8_-0.30_5.exa
017_93k550_3_medianw_0.015_32_8_-0.30_5_32_0.5_2.exa
017_93k550_envelope.ply
017_93k550_looseParts.ply
017_93k550_tablet.ply
03_Scripts.zip:
Scripts to run the extraction and visualisation software Exavis42.
017_93k550_extract.sh
017_93k550_visualise.sh
The research for this data set was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.
