Kt 93/k 144 (X-Ray Tomography 3D data of an Enveloped Clay Tablet, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara)

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true 3.1 UHH.FDR 10.25592/uhhfdm.17651 Michel, Cécile CSMC Schroer, Christian DESY Olbrich, Stephan CSMC Beckert, Andreas CSMC Ehteram, Samaneh CSMC Schropp, Andreas DESY Paetzold, Philipp DESY Bohn, Mathias DESY Zerbe, Katrin DESY Aksoy, Avni University of Ankara Kt 93/k 144 (X-Ray Tomography 3D data of an Enveloped Clay Tablet, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara) Universität Hamburg 2025 Written Artefact UWA Cluster of Excellence CSMC DESY RFA09 Artefact Profiling 3D X-Ray Tomography ENCI Cuneiform Clay tablet Assyriology Informatics Physics Museum of Anatolian Civilizations Ankara 2025-06-18 https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/oai:fdr.uni-hamburg.de:17651 10.25592/uhhfdm.17633 1.1 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Open Access 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: 5.3 cm; Width: 4.8 cm; Depth: 2.9 cm Museum/Collection: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Türkiye Excavation number: Kt 93/k 144 Publication number (envelope): forthcoming   Transliteration of the tablet inside the envelope 1um-ma A-lá-hu-um-ma 2ù A-&scaron;ùr-ták-lá-ku 3a-na I-dí-a-bi-im En-na-/nim 4Puzur4-A-&scaron;ùr ù I-ku-/pì-a 5qí-bí-ma : a-ma-kam 6ṭup-pé-e : am-ra-ma 7ṭup-pá-am ha-ar-ma-/am 8&scaron;a 5 ma-na kù-babbar 9&scaron;a a-na I-ku-pí-a lo.e.10a-na e-bu-ṭí rev.11A-&scaron;ùr-du10 i-dí-nu-ma 12dam-gàr il5-pu-tù 13ṭup-pá-am dí-na-&scaron;u-ma 14li-du-uk : a-na-kam 15ṭup-pu-um &scaron;a na-ru-qí-/&scaron;u 16i&scaron;-tí : um-mì-a-ni-&scaron;u 17al-pu-ut.   Translation of the tablet in the envelope Thus (say) Ali-ahum and A&scaron;&scaron;ur-taklāku: say to Iddin-abum, Ennānum, Puzur-A&scaron;&scaron;ur and Ikuppiya. There, I have seen the tablets, and the enveloped tablet concerning 5 minas of silver that A&scaron;&scaron;ur-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.   Structure and data 00_Photos.zip: Photos of the enveloped tablet from all sides. <ul> <li> 93k144a photos.docx </li> <li> Kt93k144aLe.jpg </li> <li> Kt93k144aLoe.jpg </li> <li> Kt93k144aOb.jpg </li> <li> Kt93k144aRe.jpg </li> <li> Kt93k144aRev.jpg </li> <li> Kt93k144aUe.jpg </li> </ul>   01_VolumeData.zip: 3D tomographic reconstruction volume data. <ul> <li> 015_93k144_reconstruction_crop.nxs </li> </ul>   02_Visualisations.zip: Geometry files of the tablet and envelope (.ply) and internal format files (.exa). <ul> <li> 015_93k144_1.25.exa </li> <li> 015_93k144_1.25_medianw_0.015_32_8_-0.30_5.exa </li> <li> 015_93k144_1.25_medianw_0.015_32_8_-0.30_5_32_0.5_2.exa </li> <li> 015_93k144_envelope.ply </li> <li> 015_93k144_tablet.ply </li> </ul>   03_Scripts.zip: Scripts to run the extraction and visualisation software Exavis42. <ul> <li> 015_93k144_extract.sh </li> <li> 015_93k144_visualise.sh </li> </ul> 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.