DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.14776
title: AO 8295 (X-Ray Tomography 3D data of an Enveloped Clay Tablet, Louvre Museum, Paris)

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: Loan contract<br>
Provenience: Kanesh (mod. Kültepe)<br>
Period/Date: Old Assyrian (ca. 1920-1850 BC) (1st half of 2nd millennium)<br>
Country of discovery: Türkiye<br>
Dimensions: Height: 6.1 cm; Width: 5.9 cm; Depth: 2.1 cm<br>
Museum/Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France,  Department of Oriental Antiquities<br>
Museum number: AO 8295<br>
Publication reference: TC 3,229<br>
CDLI: TCL 21, 229 (P357795)

 

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

Enlil-bani has loaned 2/3 minas 2 2/3 shekels and<br>
15 grains of refined silver¹ to Assur-malik, son of<br>
Uzua. From the week of Iddin-Abum, month v, year<br>
of Enna-Suen, son of Shu-Ishar², within five weeks<br>
he will pay. If he has not paid, he will add as<br>
interest half a shekel per mina and per month.<br>
Witnesses: Shu-Belum, son of Kulumaya,<br>
and Amur-Assur, son of Assur-tab.

¹ 15 grains of refined silver: about 340 g<br>
² Weeks and years are named after people

 

<strong>Structure and data</strong>

<strong>Individual files:</strong><br>
Previews and 3D files<strong> </strong>


 000_AO8295_anim5b_small: Short animated GIF preview
 001_AO8295_anim5b: Longer animated GIF file, higher quality
 002_AO8295_2_4_0.5_2_crossBilateralTukey_auto_1_3_mean_0.0625_auto_1_3_auto_1.25_0.015_32_8_-0.5_i2 Envelope: .glb file of the envelope
 003_AO8295_2_4_0.5_2_crossBilateralTukey_auto_1_3_mean_0.0625_auto_1_3_auto_1.25_0.015_32_8_-0.5_i4 Letter: .glb file of the letter


<strong>00_Photos.zip:</strong><br>
Photos of enveloped Tablet front and back.


 AO 8295_Louvre_Tablets_150
 AO 8295-O_Louvre_Tablets_091


<strong>01_VolumeData.zip:</strong><br>
3D tomographic reconstruction of Tablet AO8295 volume data and example cross section visualisation.


 reconstruction.nxs
 reconstruction.h5
 cross_section.jpg


<strong>02_Visualisations.zip</strong>:<br>
Contains geometry files, internal format files (.exa) and visualisations as tif files.


 AO8295_2_4_0.5_2_crossBilateralTukey_auto_1_3_mean_0.0625_auto_1_3_auto_1.25.exa
 AO8295_2_4_0.5_2_crossBilateralTukey_auto_1_3_mean_0.0625_auto_1_3_auto_1.25_0.015_32_8_-0.5.exa
 AO8295_2_4_0.5_2_crossBilateralTukey_auto_1_3_mean_0.0625_auto_1_3_auto_1.25_0.015_32_8_-0.5_a64.exa
 AO8295_2_4_0.5_2_crossBilateralTukey_auto_1_3_mean_0.0625_auto_1_3_auto_1.25_0.015_32_8_-0.5_a64_p2.ply
 AO8295_2_4_0.5_2_crossBilateralTukey_auto_1_3_mean_0.0625_auto_1_3_auto_1.25_0.015_32_8_-0.5_a64_p4.ply
 AO8295_2_4_0.5_2_crossBilateralTukey_auto_1_3_mean_0.0625_auto_1_3_auto_1.25_0.015_32_8_-0.5_i2.ply
 AO8295_2_4_0.5_2_crossBilateralTukey_auto_1_3_mean_0.0625_auto_1_3_auto_1.25_0.015_32_8_-0.5_i4.ply
 AO8295_anim5b.gif
 AO8295_anim5b.mp4
 AO8295_envelope_bottom.tif
 AO8295_envelope_front.tif
 AO8295_envelope_left.tif
 AO8295_envelope_right.tif
 AO8295_envelope_top.tif
 AO8295_tablet_back.tif
 AO8295_tablet_bottom.tif
 AO8295_tablet_front.tif
 AO8295_tablet_left.tif
 AO8295_tablet_right.tif
 AO8295_tablet_top.tif


<strong>03_Scripts.zip</strong>:<br>
Scripts to run the extraction and visualisation software Exavis42.


 AO8295_anim5.bat
 AO8295_anim5.sh
 AO8295_anim5b.txt
 AO8295_h5.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.