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BM 029747 (P205014)

Administrative tag 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 029747

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tag

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (pisan-dub-ba Basket label: pisan-dub-ba érin é Gu-za-na érin é-sukkal érin Lugal-[] dam-qàr Kù-[] énsi-gal ì-gál)

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Sumerian

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tablet
obverse
1. pisan-dub-ba
en: Basket-of-tablets:
2. erin2 e2 gu-za-la2?
en: (labor-)troops, house of the chair-holders,
3. erin2 e2-sukkal
en: (labor-)troops of the messenger house,
4. erin2 lugal-[...]
en: (labor-)troops of Lugal-...,
5. dam-gar3 ku3-[...] ensi2-gal
en: exchange agents, silver, ..., big-governor,
6. i3-gal2
en: are here;
7. mu en eridu{ki}
en: year: “The en(-priest) of Eridu.”

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

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British Museum, London, UK

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Artifact type: Tag
Material: Clay
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Genre(s): Administrative (pisan-dub-ba Basket label: pisan-dub-ba érin é Gu-za-na érin é-sukkal érin Lugal-[] dam-qàr Kù-[] énsi-gal ì-gál)
Language(s): Sumerian

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Museum No.: BM 029747
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Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Amar-Suen.08.00.00
Alternative Years:
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Accounting Period: 0

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-10-28 at 21:03:16	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune; Taylor, Jonathan	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-01-19 at 10:02:26	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
2016-12-15 at 17:01:46	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2016-06-29 at 19:19:04	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Ozaki Tohru		CDLI	approved
2016-06-29 at 19:16:40	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2016-06-29 at 19:14:15	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2015-05-06 at 08:16:59	CDLI	Atf	CDLI		CDLI	approved
2014-08-19 at 19:41:36	Heinle, Michael	Atf	Heinle, Michael		CDLI	approved
2002-07-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Alivernini, Sergio; Alster, Bendt; Englund, Robert K.; Molina, Manuel; Reid, Nicholas		CDLI	approved

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“BM 029747 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P205014.

BM 029747 artifact entry (No. P205014). (2023, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P205014 (Original work published 2002)

BM 029747 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P205014 (Accessed: April 12, 2025).

@misc{2023BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-12]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {oct 28},
	title = {BM 029747 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P205014},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P205014},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/10/28/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P205014
LB  - CDLI:P205014
M1  - 2025/4/12/
TI  - BM 029747 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P205014
ER  -

“BM 029747 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P205014.

BM 029747 artifact entry (No. P205014). (2023, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P205014 (Original work published 2002)

BM 029747 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P205014 (Accessed: April 12, 2025).

@misc{2023BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-12]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {oct 28},
	title = {BM 029747 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P205014},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P205014},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/10/28/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P205014
LB  - CDLI:P205014
M1  - 2025/4/12/
TI  - BM 029747 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P205014
ER  -

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