Not identified in this review
Unknown
No personal author is established by the consulted object record.
DOCUMENT BIOGRAPHY · SUMERIAN
The Sumerian Flood Tablet
Trace a named clay witness, the basis of its date, its acquisition credit and a modern composite translation.
CBS10673 + CBS10867 · CDLI P265876 · Penn Museum
Structured pilot reviewed 7 November 2026 · unresolved claims remain open.
Author, scribe and modern contributors ↗Dates and discovery ↗Three evidence slots per claim ↗Translation coverage ↗What would close the gaps? ↗
Who is connected to this text?
Not identified in this review
Unknown
Script supports a dating assessment; it does not identify the writer by name.
Exact finder and excavation register not yet checked
Open
Nippur is the recorded provenience. The 1896 expedition/gift credit is not an exact discovery log.
Places and proposed communities
Nippur, Mesopotamia
Recorded findspot · Catalogue-reported
Place and Sumerian language do not identify a particular tribe or the author’s ancestry.
The document’s life through time
Dates belong to a specific event and source. Unassigned years remain visible; a manufacture or material date is not silently used as the date of composition, the author’s life or the narrated events.
Narrated events
Flood narrative · historical event date unestablished
Open · Unassigned
Basis: Textual narrative
A narrated Flood cannot be dated from the copy alone.
Open · Unassigned
Basis: Bibliography needed
The physical witness and first composition have separate histories.
Catalogue assessment · Approximate point
Basis: Palaeography / script comparison
The museum explicitly attributes the seventeenth-century estimate to script; no lab measurement is claimed.
Open · Unassigned
Basis: Excavation documentation needed
Do not substitute the credit-line year for a witnessed discovery date.
Catalogue-reported · Year
Basis: Museum credit line
An acquisition-history anchor, not a dated ancient event.
What supports each claim?
This physical witness is approximately seventeenth-century BCE.
One documented dating assessment; further checks open
1 documented supporting source group · three evidence slots, not a confidence score
Museum gives the approximate date and identifies script as its basis.
Locate the underlying dated script comparison and publication.
Check excavation context or another independently justified assessment.
The museum credit records an 1896 expedition / gift association.
Credit established; precise find event unresolved
1 documented supporting source group · three evidence slots, not a confidence score
Public credit line is the consulted evidence.
Obtain accession or expedition-register reference.
Locate a contemporary field report or diary with the object identifier.
Which words have a translation?
Route located · not fully collated
Passage: ETCSL 1.7.4; selected tablet-to-line concordance pending
Reference: ETCSL; museum links the composition and join
The next question has a precise address
Which existing register fixes the finder, season and locus for CBS10673/CBS10867?
Focused archival-reference question sent; await the museum’s existing records.
Which publication supplies the script-based date and its comparison material?
Locate the cited dating argument before turning an approximate estimate into a narrow range.
Which lines belong to each joined fragment and to the composite translation?
Collate selected photographs, transliteration and translation; preserve damaged text.
Source register and review limits
These entries identify what was consulted and what it can support. A historical caption retains its assessment date. A public link, received file, named author or project inquiry does not independently validate every related claim.
- Penn Museum · CBS10673 ↗
Custodian catalogue · Details, description, credit line and identifiers
Object identity, join, script-based approximate date and acquisition credit; not an excavation diary.
- ETCSL · The Flood story, c.1.7.4 ↗
Composite translation · Composition 1.7.4
A work-level English reading route; individual signs and restorations still require witness collation.
- Babylon · Penn correspondence ↗
Project correspondence summary · Penn inquiry record
A request documents a question, not an institutional answer.
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