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July 1, 2025

KU 011: 3D model of Old Akkadian clay tablet

This publication contains a replica of a historical clay tablet of the special collections of the VU University Library. The original tablet is an Old-Akkadian letter skillfully and carefully inscribed upon a small circular tablet. The author of the text, Babi, is addressing a woman (possibly his wife), Šartum, with concern for her household discontent. She has been fighting with a man (possibly her son), Ibbi-ilum. Babi wrote this letter imploring them to resolve their conflict and to request sesame oil be sent to him. Period: Old Akkadian (c. 23th-22th centuries BCE). Date: ca. 2250 BCE. Provenance: possibly Kish region. Language: Akkadian. Personal names: Babi, Šartum, Ibbi-ilum. Material: clay. Dimensions: 2,3 x 2,4 x 0,8 cm. Weight: 5,70 g.

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Linde Voorend, Kim Dibbets

July 1, 2025

KU 030: 3D model of UR III clay tablet.

This publication contains a replica of a historical clay tablet of the special collections of the VU University Library. The original tablet is an Old Akkadian school exercise to practice a year name. Period: Ur III (c. 2150-2000 BCE). Date: Shulgi 48. Provenance: unknown. Language: Sumerian. Material: clay. Dimensions: 2,2 x 2,9 x 1,0 cm. Weight: 9,21 g.

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Linde Voorend, Kim Dibbets

July 1, 2025

KU 012: 3D model of Old Babylonian clay tablet

This publication contains a replica of a historical clay tablet of the special collections of the VU University Library. The original tablet is an Old Babylonian letter sent by Sin-mušallim to Irimanni. Period: Old-Babylonian (c. 19th-16th centuries BCE). Date: ca. 1750 BCE. Provenance: Susa (?). Language: Akkadian. Personal names: Sin-mušallim, Irimanni. Material: clay. Dimensions: 4,6 x 5,2 x 2,1 cm. Weight: 73,82 g.

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Linde Voorend, Kim Dibbets

July 1, 2025

KU 010: 3D model of Old Babylonian clay tablet

This publication contains a replica of a historical clay tablet of the special collections of the VU University Library. The original tablet is an Old Babylonian receipt for 8 minas of silver. Period: Old Bablyonian (c. 19th-16th centuries BCE) Provenance: unknown. Language: Akkadian. Material: clay. Dimensions: ± 1.3 ø x 3.4 cm. Weight: 9.23 g.

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Linde Voorend, Kim Dibbets, Aidan Houtkamp

July 1, 2025

KU 014: 3D model of Neo-Babylonian clay tablet

This publication contains a replica of a historical clay tablet of the special collections of the VU University Library. The original tablet is a Neo-Babylonian legal document from the archive of the Rē'i-alpi family in Borsippa. The Achaemenid capital, Susa, is mentioned. Period: Neo-Babylonian (c. 7th-6th centuries BCE). Date: Darius I 18. Provenance: Borsippa. Language: Akkadian. Personal names: Rēmūt-Nabû son of Nabû-mukīn-zēri of the Rē’i-alpi family, Bazuzu, [x]-Nabû/Mušēzib-Marduk / Ilšu-abūšu, Nabû-zēru-ukīn / Nabû-ahhē-šullim / Mallāhu, Nabû-šumu-uṣur / Šarrahu, Nabû- uṣuršu, Bēl-iddin / Ibnāya, Nabû-bullissu / Lâbâši-Marduk / Illi-bani. Material: clay. Dimensions: 4,3 x 5,6 x 1,5 cm. Weight: 41,26 g.

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Linde Voorend, Kim Dibbets

July 1, 2025

KU 025: 3D model of Old Babylonian clay tablet

This publication contains a replica of a historical clay tablet of the special collections of the VU University Library. The original tablet contains the Hymn to Enlil, a text that has survived in a large number of copies. The hymn praises the god for his benefaction and authority; Enlil is addressed as the god responsible for life and culture, and the text deals with the structure of the cosmos. Focus is placed on Enlil's abode, the city Nippur, with many surviving copies originating there. The origin of this copy is unknown, but the hymn was known beyond Nippur and into Northern Babylonia. Period: Old Babylonian (19th-16th centuries BCE). Provenance: unknown. Language: Sumerian. Material: clay. Dimensions: 14,4 x 10,3 x 3,4 cm. Weight: 703 g.

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Linde Voorend, Kim Dibbets

July 1, 2025

KU 028: 3D model of UR III clay tablet.

This publication contains a replica of a historical clay tablet of the special collections of the VU University Library. The original tablet is a receipt of 19 livestock (oxen, cows, goats, and sheep) fattened with barley for the gods Enlil and Ninlil to be given in Nippur. It mentions the kings arrival. The tablet obverse, reverse, and edges are marked with illegible seal impressions. Period: Ur III (c. 2150-2000 BCE). Date: Ibbi-Suen 2; Drehim I. Provenance: Drehim. Language: Sumerian. Personal names: Aba-Enlil-gim, Puzur-Enlil, Šešdada (šarabdu official), Nur-Suena (šatam official), Pumwaqar, Irmu. Material: clay. Dimensions: 6,9 x 4,0 x 1.7 cm. Weight: 66,24 g.

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Linde Voorend, Kim Dibbets

July 1, 2025

KU 029: 3D model of UR III clay tablet.

This publication contains a replica of a historical clay tablet of the special collections of the VU University Library. The original tablet is a receipt for a delivery of the king, in which Nasa delivered a mother mountain ewe to Lugulhamati. Period: Ur III (c. 2150-2000 BCE). Date: Šulgi 42/43. Provenance: Drehim. Language: Sumerian. Personal names: Nasa, Lugalḫamati. Material: clay. Dimensions: 2,6 x 2,4 x 1,2 cm. Weight: 10,74 g.

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Linde Voorend, Kim Dibbets

July 1, 2025

Z 27: 3D model of seal impression

This publication contains a replica of a historical seal impression of the special collections of the VU University Library. Period: unknown. Provenance: unknown. Material: pottery Dimensions: 2,3 X 8,4 X 1,3 cm. Weight: 33,56 g

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Linde Voorend, Kim Dibbets

July 1, 2025

KU 003: 3D model of UR III clay tablet

This publication contains a replica of a historical clay tablet of the special collections of the VU University Library. The original tablet accounts for four sheep that had been fed on barley. Period: Ur III (c. 2150-2000 BCE). Date: Šu-Suen 1; intercalary month; Drehim XII. Provenance: Drehim, Iraq. Language: Sumerian. Personal names: Inta'ea (?). Material: clay. Dimensions: 3,8 x 3,3 x 1,2 cm. Weight: 20,82 g.

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Aidan Houtkamp, Linde Voorend