DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.17640
title: Kt 94/k 1150 (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: 4.9 cm; Depth: 2.6 cm<br>
Museum/Collection: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Türkiye<br>
Excavation number: Kt 94/k 1150<br>
Publication number (envelope): KT 6b, 298<br>
 

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

<sup>1</sup><em>a-na En-um-A-šur </em><sup>2</sup><em>qí-bi-ma um-ma A-na-a-na-/ma </em><sup>3</sup><em>a-ma-lá té-er-tí-kà </em><sup>4</sup><em>ša ta-áš-pu-ra-ni </em><sup>5</sup><em>a-šu-mì Lá-qé-pì-im </em><sup>6</sup><em>a-ta-na-lá-ak-šu-ma </em><sup>7</sup><em>um-ma šu-ut-ma</em> kù-°babbar° <sup>8</sup><em>a-na Ku-da-tim áš-qul </em><sup>9</sup><em>áš-ni-ma a-li-ik-šu-ma </em><sup>10</sup><em>um-ma a-na-ku-ma </em><sup>11</sup><em>ší-bi</em><sub>4</sub> : <em>lá-áš-ku-na-ku-um </em>lo.e.<sup>12</sup><em>a-šar a-na Ku-da-tim </em><sup>13</sup><em>lá ta-áš-qú-lu um-ma</em> °<em>ku</em>° <sup>14</sup>°x x° <em>šu-ut-ma </em>rev.<sup>15</sup>kù-babbar <em>ku-a-tí lá a-da-na-ki-/im</em> <sup>16</sup><em>i-na a-lá-ak </em><sup>17</sup><em>En-um-A-šur šu-a-tí-ma </em><sup>18</sup><em>a-ša-qál be-lí a-ta </em><sup>19</sup><em>mì-nam</em> <em>ur-ki</em><sup>!</sup>(SÁ) <em>hu-sá-ri-im </em><sup>20</sup><em>qá-qá-ad-kà ta-ta-na-i </em><sup>21</sup><em>a-na-kam té-er-ta-kà </em><sup>22</sup>kù-babbar 10 <em>ma-na ù</em> 20 <em>ma-na </em><sup>23</sup><em>lu i-na Bu-ru-uš-ha-tim </em><sup>24</sup><em>lu i-na Wa-ah-šu-ša-na </em><sup>25</sup><em>lu a-na-kam té-er-ta-°kà° </em>u.e.<sup>26</sup><em>té-zi-ib</em> <em>qá-qá-ad/-kà </em><sup>27</sup><em>ta-ta-na-i </em>l.e.<sup>28</sup><em>šu-ma a-dí </em>10 <em>u</em><sub>4</sub><em>-me lá ta-/li-kam </em><sup>29</sup><em>a-ṣí-kà</em>? <em>té-eb-a-/ma </em><sup>30</sup><em>a-tal-kam </em>: <sup>31</sup>«<em>a-ta-kàm</em>» <sup>32</sup><em>a-wa-tim lá-am-na-tim áš-ta-na-/me-e</em>

 

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

Say to Ennum-Aššur: thus (says) Anna-anna.

According to the instructions you sent me, regarding Laqēpum, I repeatedly go to him, and he (answers) as follows: “I paid the silver to Kudātum.” I checked and went to him (saying) as follows: “I will certainly get witnesses (to testify) against you in case you did not paid (it) to Kudātum.” He (answered) as follows: “I will not give the silver to you. When Ennum-Aššur arrives, it will be to him that I will pay (it)!”

You are my master. Why do you keep turning your head towards the lapis lazuli? Here, your instructions concerning silver, 10 or 20 minas that are either in Burušhattum, or in Wahšušana, or here, you left your instructions and you keep turning your head towards it. If within 10 days you have not arrived as for your departure, stand up and come. I hear bad words all the time! 

 

<strong>Structure and data</strong>

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

Photos of the enveloped tablet from all sides.


 
 94k1150a photos.docx
 
 
 94k1150aLeft Edge.jpg
 
 
 94k1150aLower Edge.jpg
 
 
 94k1150aObverse.jpg
 
 
 94k1150aReverse.jpg
 
 
 94k1150aRight Edge.jpg
 
 
 94k1150aue.jpg
 


 

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

3D tomographic reconstruction volume data.


 
 038_94k1150_reconstruction_crop.nxs
 


 

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

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


 
 038_94k1150_5.exa
 
 
 038_94k1150_5_medianw_0.015_32_8_-0.35_5.exa
 
 
 038_94k1150_5_medianw_0.015_32_8_-0.35_5_32_0.5_2.exa
 
 
 038_94k1150_envelope.ply
 
 
 038_94k1150_tablet.ply
 


 

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

Scripts to run the extraction and visualisation software Exavis42.


 
 038_94k1150_extract.sh
 
 
 038_94k1150_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.