Letters 080 (P112517)

Letter tablet excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 021700

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Letter

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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tablet
obverse
1. [ur?]-{d}lamma-ra
2. u3-na-a-du11
3. 3(asz) [x] sze# gur lugal
4. ur-ki-gu-la lu2 azlag2
reverse
1. he2-na-ab-szum2-mu
2. nig2-ba lugal-kam

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Consult sign list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Consult word list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: BM 021700
  • Accession No.: 1896-03-30, 0366

  • Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello) [uncertain]
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-08-19 at 13:32:21 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-01-19 at 09:57:24 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2011-07-22 at 13:34:49 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:15:33 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:19:29 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“Letters 080 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P112517.
Letters 080 artifact entry (No. P112517). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P112517 (Original work published 2001)
Letters 080 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P112517 (Accessed: March 29, 2024).
@misc{2023Letters,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-03-29]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {Letters 080 artifact entry},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P112517},
}

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