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Michel, Cécile; Schroer, Christian; Olbrich, Stephan; Beckert, Andreas; Ehteram, Samaneh; Schropp, Andreas; Paetzold, Philipp; Bohn, Mathias; Zerbe, Katrin; Aksoy, Avni

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{"conceptdoi":"10.25592/uhhfdm.17639","conceptrecid":"17639","created":"2025-06-18T16:01:34.942296+00:00","doi":"10.25592/uhhfdm.17640","id":17640,"links":{"badge":"https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/badge/doi/10.25592/uhhfdm.17640.svg","conceptbadge":"https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/badge/doi/10.25592/uhhfdm.17639.svg","conceptdoi":"http://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.17639","doi":"http://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.17640"},"metadata":{"access_right":"open","access_right_category":"success","communities":[{"id":"csmc"},{"id":"uhh"}],"creators":[{"affiliation":"CSMC","name":"Michel, C\u00e9cile"},{"affiliation":"DESY","name":"Schroer, Christian"},{"affiliation":"CSMC","name":"Olbrich, Stephan"},{"affiliation":"CSMC","name":"Beckert, Andreas"},{"affiliation":"CSMC","name":"Ehteram, Samaneh"},{"affiliation":"DESY","name":"Schropp, Andreas"},{"affiliation":"DESY","name":"Paetzold, Philipp"},{"affiliation":"DESY","name":"Bohn, Mathias"},{"affiliation":"DESY","name":"Zerbe, Katrin"},{"affiliation":"University of Ankara","name":"Aksoy, Avni"}],"description":"<p><strong>Written Artefact Metadata</strong></p>\n\n<p>Object type: Enveloped clay tablet<br>\nMaterial: Clay<br>\nWriting: Cuneiform writing<br>\nLanguage: Old Assyrian<br>\nNature of the text: Letter<br>\nProvenience: Kanesh (mod. K&uuml;ltepe)<br>\nPeriod/Date: Old Assyrian (ca. 1920-1850 BCE)<br>\nCountry of discovery: T&uuml;rkiye<br>\nDimensions: Height: 5.3 cm; Width: 4.9 cm; Depth: 2.6 cm<br>\nMuseum/Collection: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, T&uuml;rkiye<br>\nExcavation number: Kt 94/k 1150<br>\nPublication number (envelope): KT 6b, 298<br>\n&nbsp;</p>\n\n<p><strong>Transliteration of the tablet in the envelope</strong></p>\n\n<p><sup>1</sup><em>a-na En-um-A-&scaron;ur </em><sup>2</sup><em>q&iacute;-bi-ma um-ma A-na-a-na-/ma </em><sup>3</sup><em>a-ma-l&aacute; t&eacute;-er-t&iacute;-k&agrave; </em><sup>4</sup><em>&scaron;a ta-&aacute;&scaron;-pu-ra-ni </em><sup>5</sup><em>a-&scaron;u-m&igrave; L&aacute;-q&eacute;-p&igrave;-im </em><sup>6</sup><em>a-ta-na-l&aacute;-ak-&scaron;u-ma </em><sup>7</sup><em>um-ma &scaron;u-ut-ma</em> k&ugrave;-&deg;babbar&deg; <sup>8</sup><em>a-na Ku-da-tim &aacute;&scaron;-qul </em><sup>9</sup><em>&aacute;&scaron;-ni-ma a-li-ik-&scaron;u-ma </em><sup>10</sup><em>um-ma a-na-ku-ma </em><sup>11</sup><em>&scaron;&iacute;-bi</em><sub>4</sub>&nbsp;: <em>l&aacute;-&aacute;&scaron;-ku-na-ku-um </em>lo.e.<sup>12</sup><em>a-&scaron;ar a-na Ku-da-tim </em><sup>13</sup><em>l&aacute; ta-&aacute;&scaron;-q&uacute;-lu um-ma</em> &deg;<em>ku</em>&deg; <sup>14</sup>&deg;x x&deg; <em>&scaron;u-ut-ma </em>rev.<sup>15</sup>k&ugrave;-babbar <em>ku-a-t&iacute; l&aacute; a-da-na-ki-/im</em> <sup>16</sup><em>i-na a-l&aacute;-ak </em><sup>17</sup><em>En-um-A-&scaron;ur &scaron;u-a-t&iacute;-ma </em><sup>18</sup><em>a-&scaron;a-q&aacute;l be-l&iacute; a-ta </em><sup>19</sup><em>m&igrave;-nam</em> <em>ur-ki</em><sup>!</sup>(S&Aacute;) <em>hu-s&aacute;-ri-im </em><sup>20</sup><em>q&aacute;-q&aacute;-ad-k&agrave; ta-ta-na-i </em><sup>21</sup><em>a-na-kam t&eacute;-er-ta-k&agrave; </em><sup>22</sup>k&ugrave;-babbar 10 <em>ma-na &ugrave;</em> 20 <em>ma-na </em><sup>23</sup><em>lu i-na Bu-ru-u&scaron;-ha-tim </em><sup>24</sup><em>lu i-na Wa-ah-&scaron;u-&scaron;a-na </em><sup>25</sup><em>lu a-na-kam t&eacute;-er-ta-&deg;k&agrave;&deg; </em>u.e.<sup>26</sup><em>t&eacute;-zi-ib</em> <em>q&aacute;-q&aacute;-ad/-k&agrave; </em><sup>27</sup><em>ta-ta-na-i </em>l.e.<sup>28</sup><em>&scaron;u-ma a-d&iacute; </em>10 <em>u</em><sub>4</sub><em>-me l&aacute; ta-/li-kam </em><sup>29</sup><em>a-\u1e63&iacute;-k&agrave;</em>? <em>t&eacute;-eb-a-/ma </em><sup>30</sup><em>a-tal-kam </em>: <sup>31</sup>&laquo;<em>a-ta-k&agrave;m</em>&raquo; <sup>32</sup><em>a-wa-tim l&aacute;-am-na-tim &aacute;&scaron;-ta-na-/me-e</em></p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<p><strong>Translation of the tablet in the envelope</strong></p>\n\n<p>Say to Ennum-A&scaron;&scaron;ur: thus (says) Anna-anna.</p>\n\n<p>According to the instructions you sent me, regarding Laq\u0113pum, I repeatedly go to him, and he (answers) as follows: &ldquo;I paid the silver to Kud\u0101tum.&rdquo; I checked and went to him (saying) as follows: &ldquo;I will certainly get witnesses (to testify) against you in case you did not paid (it) to Kud\u0101tum.&rdquo; He (answered) as follows: &ldquo;I will not give the silver to you. When Ennum-A&scaron;&scaron;ur arrives, it will be to him that I will pay (it)!&rdquo;</p>\n\n<p>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 Buru&scaron;hattum, or in Wah&scaron;u&scaron;ana, 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!&nbsp;</p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<p><strong>Structure and data</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>00_Photos.zip:</strong></p>\n\n<p>Photos of the enveloped tablet from all sides.</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>94k1150a photos.docx</p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>94k1150aLeft Edge.jpg</p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>94k1150aLower Edge.jpg</p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>94k1150aObverse.jpg</p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>94k1150aReverse.jpg</p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>94k1150aRight Edge.jpg</p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>94k1150aue.jpg</p>\n\t</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<p><strong>01_VolumeData.zip:</strong></p>\n\n<p>3D tomographic reconstruction volume data.</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>038_94k1150_reconstruction_crop.nxs</p>\n\t</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<p><strong>02_Visualisations.zip:</strong></p>\n\n<p>Geometry files of the tablet and envelope (.ply) and internal format files (.exa).</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>038_94k1150_5.exa</p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>038_94k1150_5_medianw_0.015_32_8_-0.35_5.exa</p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>038_94k1150_5_medianw_0.015_32_8_-0.35_5_32_0.5_2.exa</p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>038_94k1150_envelope.ply</p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>038_94k1150_tablet.ply</p>\n\t</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<p><strong>03_Scripts.zip:</strong></p>\n\n<p>Scripts to run the extraction and visualisation software Exavis42.</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>038_94k1150_extract.sh</p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p>038_94k1150_visualise.sh</p>\n\t</li>\n</ul>","doi":"10.25592/uhhfdm.17640","keywords":["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"],"license":{"id":"CC-BY-4.0"},"notes":"The research for this data set was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy \u2013 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 Universit\u00e4t Hamburg.","publication_date":"2025-06-18","related_identifiers":[{"identifier":"10.25592/uhhfdm.17639","relation":"isVersionOf","scheme":"doi"}],"relations":{"version":[{"count":1,"index":0,"is_last":true,"last_child":{"pid_type":"recid","pid_value":"17640"},"parent":{"pid_type":"recid","pid_value":"17639"}}]},"resource_type":{"title":"Dataset","type":"dataset"},"title":"Kt 94/k 1150 (X-Ray Tomography 3D data of an Enveloped Clay Tablet, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara)","version":"1.0"},"owners":[604],"revision":3,"updated":"2025-06-27T14:46:15.730545+00:00"}