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

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; Depth: 2.1 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