DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.17757
title: Kt 94/k 602 (X-Ray Tomography 3D data of an Enveloped Clay Tablet, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara)

description: <strong>Written Artefact Metadata</strong>

Object type: Enveloped clay tablet<br>
Material: Clay<br>
Writing: Cuneiform writing<br>
Language: Old Assyrian<br>
Nature of the text: Letter<br>
Provenience: Kanesh (mod. Kültepe)<br>
Period/Date: Old Assyrian (ca. 1920-1850 BCE)<br>
Country of discovery: Türkiye<br>
Dimensions: Height: 5.5 cm; Width: 5.2 cm; Depth: 3.1 cm<br>
Museum/Collection: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Türkiye<br>
Excavation number: Kt 94/k 602<br>
Publication number (envelope): KT 6d, 801<br>
 

<strong>Transliteration of the tablet in the envelope</strong>

<sup>1</sup><em>a-na </em>dam-gàr<sup><em>ri-im</em></sup><em> ù</em> <sup>2</sup><em>E-lá-lí</em> : <em>qí-bi-ma</em> <sup>3</sup><em>a-na</em> dam-gàr<sup><em>ri-im</em></sup><em> qí-bi-ma </em><sup>4</sup><em>um-ma In-ba-A-šùr-ma </em><sup>5</sup>5 lá ¼<sup>?</sup> túg <em>ku-ta-ni </em>sig<sub>5</sub> <sup>6</sup>10 túg <em>lu ša A-ki-dí-e </em><sup>7</sup><em>lu ša Ha-ra-hu-ur </em><sup>8</sup>2 anše <em>ṣa-lá-mu </em><sup>9</sup><em>mì-ma a-nim </em>lo.e.<sup>10</sup><em>a-ra-dí-a-kum </em>rev.<sup>11</sup>10 túg <em>wa-at-ru-ma </em><sup>12</sup><em>a-na ta-ší-a-tí-im </em><sup>13</sup><em>a-dí Ha-hi-im </em>: <em>a-dí-in </em><sup>14</sup>kù-babbar <em>ša šé-bu-lim</em> : <em>a-na </em><sup>15</sup><em>pá-ni-a</em> : <em>šé-bi</em><sub>4</sub><em>-lam ṣa-he-er-/tám </em><sup>16</sup><em>ša </em>5 gín kù-babbar <em>šé-bi</em><sub>4</sub><em>-lam </em><sup>17</sup>°<em>lá°-ma</em> : <em>i-na Ha-hi-im </em><sup>18</sup><em>i-na</em> <sup>d</sup>utu<sup><em>ši</em></sup><em> En-um-A-šùr </em><sup>19</sup><em>ur-da-ni</em> : <em>ú-nu-tí i-na </em><sup>20</sup>é-gal<sup><em>lim</em></sup> : <em>ú-ṣa-am</em> : 2 <em>u</em><sub>4</sub><em>-me-/e </em><sup>21</sup><em>e-ma-ru-a </em>: <em>i-nu-hu</em>-<em>ma </em>u.e.<sup>22</sup><em>a-na Tí-mì-il</em><sub>5</sub><em>-ki-a </em><sup>23</sup><em>a-sá-ri-dam</em> : <em>a-hi a-ta </em>le.e.<sup>24</sup><em>té-er-ta-kà</em> : <em>a-pá-ni-a </em><sup>25</sup><em>li-li-kam</em>, supplementary tablet: <sup>1</sup>túg<sup>hi</sup><em>-tù</em> sig<sub>5</sub> diri <sup>2</sup><em>mì-lik </em>: túg<sup>hi</sup><em>-tí-kà</em> <sup>3</sup><em>mì-lik.</em>

 

<strong>Translation of the tablet in the envelope</strong>

Say to the creditor and Elālī; say to the creditor: thus (says) Inba-Aššur.

5 minus ¼ <em>kutānum-</em>textiles of good quality, 10 textiles either from Akkad or from Harahur, 2 black donkeys, I am bringing you all this. I gave 10 textiles extra for the transport costs until Hahhum. Send me the silver of the consignment by the next caravan. Send me (also) small goods worth 5 shekels of silver. Before being in Hahhum, the day Ennum-Aššur came down, my goods came out of the palace. During two days my donkeys suffered, so I will drive them to Timilkiya. You are my brother, let your report come to me.

 

<strong>Structure and data</strong>

<strong>00_Photos.zip:</strong>

Photos of the enveloped tablet from all sides.


 
 94k602a photos.docx
 
 
 94k602aLe.jpg
 
 
 94k602aLoe.jpg
 
 
 94k602aOb.jpg
 
 
 94k602aRe.jpg
 
 
 94k602aRev.jpg
 
 
 94k602aUe.jpg
 


 

<strong>01_VolumeData.zip:</strong>

3D tomographic reconstruction volume data.


 
 006_94k602_reconstruction_crop.nxs
 


 

<strong>02_Visualisations.zip:</strong>

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


 
 006_94k602_4.exa
 
 
 006_94k602_4_medianw_0.015_32_8_-0.25_5.exa
 
 
 006_94k602_4_medianw_0.015_32_8_-0.25_5_32_0.5_2.exa
 
 
 006_94k602_envelope.ply
 
 
 006_94k602_tablet1.ply
 
 
 006_94k602_tablet2.ply
 


 

<strong>03_Scripts.zip:</strong>

Scripts to run the extraction and visualisation software Exavis42.


 
 006_94k602_extract.sh
 
 
 006_94k602_visualise.sh
description: 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.