DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.17651
title: Kt 93/k 144 (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: 5.3 cm; Width: 4.8 cm; Depth: 2.9 cm<br>
Museum/Collection: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Türkiye<br>
Excavation number: Kt 93/k 144<br>
Publication number (envelope): forthcoming<br>
 

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

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

 

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

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.

 

<strong>Structure and data</strong>

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

Photos of the enveloped tablet from all sides.


 
 93k144a photos.docx
 
 
 Kt93k144aLe.jpg
 
 
 Kt93k144aLoe.jpg
 
 
 Kt93k144aOb.jpg
 
 
 Kt93k144aRe.jpg
 
 
 Kt93k144aRev.jpg
 
 
 Kt93k144aUe.jpg
 


 

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

3D tomographic reconstruction volume data.


 
 015_93k144_reconstruction_crop.nxs
 


 

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

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
 


 

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

Scripts to run the extraction and visualisation software Exavis42.


 
 015_93k144_extract.sh
 
 
 015_93k144_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.