Written Artefact Metadata
Object type: Enveloped clay tablet
Material: Clay
Writing: Cuneiform writing
Language: Old Assyrian
Nature of the text: Letter
Provenience: Kanesh (mod. Kültepe)
Period/Date: Old Assyrian (ca. 1920-1850 BCE)
Country of discovery: Türkiye
Dimensions: Height: 5.5 cm; Width: 5.2 cm; Depth: 3.1 cm
Museum/Collection: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Türkiye
Excavation number: Kt 94/k 602
Publication number (envelope): KT 6d, 801
Transliteration of the tablet in the envelope
1a-na dam-gàrri-im ù 2E-lá-lí : qí-bi-ma 3a-na dam-gàrri-im qí-bi-ma 4um-ma In-ba-A-šùr-ma 55 lá ¼? túg ku-ta-ni sig5 610 túg lu ša A-ki-dí-e 7lu ša Ha-ra-hu-ur 82 anše ṣa-lá-mu 9mì-ma a-nim lo.e.10a-ra-dí-a-kum rev.1110 túg wa-at-ru-ma 12a-na ta-ší-a-tí-im 13a-dí Ha-hi-im : a-dí-in 14kù-babbar ša šé-bu-lim : a-na 15pá-ni-a : šé-bi4-lam ṣa-he-er-/tám 16ša 5 gín kù-babbar šé-bi4-lam 17°lá°-ma : i-na Ha-hi-im 18i-na dutuši En-um-A-šùr 19ur-da-ni : ú-nu-tí i-na 20é-gallim : ú-ṣa-am : 2 u4-me-/e 21e-ma-ru-a : i-nu-hu-ma u.e.22a-na Tí-mì-il5-ki-a 23a-sá-ri-dam : a-hi a-ta le.e.24té-er-ta-kà : a-pá-ni-a 25li-li-kam, supplementary tablet: 1túghi-tù sig5 diri 2mì-lik : túghi-tí-kà 3mì-lik.
Translation of the tablet in the envelope
Say to the creditor and Elālī; say to the creditor: thus (says) Inba-Aššur.
5 minus ¼ kutānum-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.
Structure and data
00_Photos.zip:
Photos of the enveloped tablet from all sides.
94k602a photos.docx
94k602aLe.jpg
94k602aLoe.jpg
94k602aOb.jpg
94k602aRe.jpg
94k602aRev.jpg
94k602aUe.jpg
01_VolumeData.zip:
3D tomographic reconstruction volume data.
006_94k602_reconstruction_crop.nxs
02_Visualisations.zip:
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
03_Scripts.zip:
Scripts to run the extraction and visualisation software Exavis42.
006_94k602_extract.sh
006_94k602_visualise.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.
