AO 8295 (X-Ray Tomography 3D data of an Enveloped Clay Tablet, Louvre Museum, Paris)

DOI

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.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.14776
Related Identifier IsPartOf https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.14775
Metadata Access https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/oai2d?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:fdr.uni-hamburg.de:14776
Provenance
Creator Michel, Cécile; Schroer, Christian; Olbrich, Stephan; Ehteram, Samaneh; Beckert, Andreas; Schropp, Andreas; Pätzold, Philipp; Wiljes, Patrik; Bohn, Matthias; Döhrmann, Ralph; Pataï, Véronique
Publisher Universität Hamburg
Publication Year 2024
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Open Access; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics