Kt 93/k 144 (X-Ray Tomography 3D data of an Enveloped Clay Tablet, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara)

DOI

Written Artefact Metadata

Object type: Enveloped clay tablet Material: Clay Writing: Cuneiform writing Language: Old Assyrian Nature of the text: Letter Provenience: Kanesh (mod. Kültepe) Period/Date: Old Assyrian (ca. 1920-1850 BCE) Country of discovery: Türkiye Dimensions: Height: 5.3 cm; Width: 4.8 cm; Depth: 2.9 cm Museum/Collection: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Türkiye Excavation number: Kt 93/k 144 Publication number (envelope): forthcoming  

Transliteration of the tablet inside the envelope

1um-ma A-lá-hu-um-ma 2ù A-šùr-ták-lá-ku 3a-na I-dí-a-bi-im En-na-/nim 4Puzur4-A-šùr ù I-ku-/pì-a 5qí-bí-ma : a-ma-kam 6ṭup-pé-e : am-ra-ma 7ṭup-pá-am ha-ar-ma-/am 8ša 5 ma-na kù-babbar 9ša a-na I-ku-pí-a lo.e.10a-na e-bu-ṭí rev.11A-šùr-du10 i-dí-nu-ma 12dam-gàr il5-pu-tù 13ṭup-pá-am dí-na-šu-ma 14li-du-uk : a-na-kam 15ṭup-pu-um ša na-ru-qí-/šu 16iš-tí : um-mì-a-ni-šu 17al-pu-ut.

 

Translation of the tablet in the envelope

Thus (say) Ali-ahum and Aššur-taklāku: say to Iddin-abum, Ennānum, Puzur-Aššur and Ikuppiya.

There, I have seen the tablets, and the enveloped tablet concerning 5 minas of silver that Aššur-ṭāb gave as investment loan to Ikuppiya and that the creditor had written down, give him the tablet so that he cancels it (kills it). Here, I wrote the tablet of his joint stock company with his investors.

 

Structure and data

00_Photos.zip:

Photos of the enveloped tablet from all sides.

93k144a photos.docx


Kt93k144aLe.jpg


Kt93k144aLoe.jpg


Kt93k144aOb.jpg


Kt93k144aRe.jpg


Kt93k144aRev.jpg


Kt93k144aUe.jpg

 

01_VolumeData.zip:

3D tomographic reconstruction volume data.

015_93k144_reconstruction_crop.nxs

 

02_Visualisations.zip:

Geometry files of the tablet and envelope (.ply) and internal format files (.exa).

015_93k144_1.25.exa


015_93k144_1.25_medianw_0.015_32_8_-0.30_5.exa


015_93k144_1.25_medianw_0.015_32_8_-0.30_5_32_0.5_2.exa


015_93k144_envelope.ply


015_93k144_tablet.ply

 

03_Scripts.zip:

Scripts to run the extraction and visualisation software Exavis42.

015_93k144_extract.sh


015_93k144_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.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.17634
Related Identifier IsPartOf https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.17633
Metadata Access https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/oai2d?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:fdr.uni-hamburg.de:17634
Provenance
Creator Michel, Cécile; Schroer, Christian; Olbrich, Stephan; Beckert, Andreas; Ehteram, Samaneh; Schropp, Andreas; Paetzold, Philipp; Bohn, Mathias; Zerbe, Katrin; Aksoy, Avni
Publisher Universität Hamburg
Publication Year 2025
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Open Access; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Resource Type Dataset
Version 1.0
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics