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.