AOAT 025, 438 BM 19359 (P101746)

Administrative 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 019359

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

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tablet
obverse
1. di til-la
2. 1(disz) nin-za3-ge-si dumu ur3-re-ba-du7
3. sa10-am3 til-la 3(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar-sze3
4. ur3-re-ba-du7 ti-la-ra
5. szu ur-{d}lamma ensi2-ka-ta
6. a-kal-la dumu ur-nigar{gar}-ke4
7. in-szi-sa10-a
8. a-la dumu a2-ra-da-na
reverse
1. lu2-uru11{ki} [dumu] ur#-nigar#{gar#}-ra#
2. lu2-inim-ma#-bi#-me
3. nin-za3-ge-si u3 ama-ne2-e
4. lu2-inim-ma bi2-gur
5. a-kal-la
6. nam-erim2-am3
7. geme2 a-kal-la ba-na-gi-in
8. ti-e2-mah-ta maszkim
  double ruling
9. lu2-{d}szara2
10. ur-{d}isztaran
left
column 1
1. di-ku5-bi-me
column 2
1. mu us2-sa si-ma-num2{ki} ba-hul

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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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  • primary: AOAT 025, 438 BM 19359,

    [Sollberger1976-9106] Sollberger, Edmond. 1976.

  • history: Fs Greenfield, 612-613, no. 2

    [Sigrist1995FsGreenfield] Sigrist, Marcel. 1995. “Some Di-Til-La Tablets in the British Museum.”

  • history: Care of the Elderly p.23-57, p. 48

    [Wilcke1998elderly] Wilcke, Claus. 1998. “Care of the Elderly in Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium B.C.” In The Care of the Elderly in the Ancient Near East, edited by Marten Stol and Sven P. Vleeming, 23–57. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, Volume 14. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill.

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  • Museum No.: BM 019359
  • Accession No.: 1895-10-14, 0007

  • Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.04.00.00 (us2 year)
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  • Accounting Period: 0

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-08-19 at 13:27:14 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 13:19:08 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:05:26 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2009-06-03 at 09:41:56 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:14:57 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
“AOAT 025, 438 BM 19359 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P101746.
AOAT 025, 438 BM 19359 artifact entry (No. P101746). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P101746 (Original work published 2001)
AOAT 025, 438 BM 19359 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P101746 (Accessed: April 19, 2024).
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