Written Artefact Metadata
Object type: Enveloped clay tablet
Material: Clay
Writing: Cuneiform writing
Language: Cappadocian
Nature of the text: Debt contract
Provenience: Kanesh (mod. Kültepe)
Period/Date: Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC) (1st half of 2nd millennium)
Place of discovery: Cappadocia
Dimensions: Height: 6.1 cm; Width: 5.9 cm
Museum/Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France, Department of Oriental Antiquities
Main number: AO 8295
Catalog number: TC 3,229
CDLI: TCL 21, 229 (P357795)
Translation of the tablet in the envelope
Enlil-bani has loaned 2/3 minas 2 2/3 shekels and
15 grains of refined silver¹ to Assur-malik, son of
Uzua. From the week of Iddin-Abum, month v, year
of Enna-Suen, son of Shu-Ishar², within five weeks
he will pay. If he has not paid, he will add as
interest half a shekel per mina and per month.
Witnesses: Shu-Belum, son of Kulumaya,
and Amur-Assur, son of Assur-tab.
¹ 15 grains of refined silver: about 340 g
² Weeks and years are named after people
Structure and data
Individual files:
Previews and 3D files
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
00_Photos.zip:
Photos of enveloped Tablet front and back.
AO 8295_Louvre_Tablets_150
AO 8295-O_Louvre_Tablets_091
01_VolumeData.zip:
3D tomographic reconstruction of Tablet AO8295 volume data and example cross section visualisation.
reconstruction.nxs
reconstruction.h5
cross_section.jpg
02_Visualisations.zip:
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
03_Scripts.zip:
Scripts to run the extraction and visualisation software Exavis42.
AO8295_anim5.bat
AO8295_anim5.sh
AO8295_anim5b.txt
AO8295_h5.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.
