MVN 11, 003 (P116017)

Letter tablet excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Museum Number

SM 1899.02.404

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Letter

Language(s)

Sumerian

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tablet
obverse
1. ur-{d}nansze
2. u3-na-a-du11
3. 1(disz) gu4 esz3-esz3
4. ug3-IL2 sagi-ra#
reverse
1. he2#-na-ab-szum2#-mu
2. u4-sakar iti szu-numun-ka-sze3
3. mu us2-sa# ki-masz{ki} mu# us2-sa#-bi#

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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: MVN 11, 3

    [Owen1982MVN11] Owen, David I. 1982. Selected Ur III Texts from the Harvard Semitic Museum. Materiali per Il Vocabolario Neosumerico 11. Roma: Multigrafica Editrice.

  • history: JCS 28 (p. 161-168), 167 5

    [Michalowski1976JCS28] Michalowski, Piotr. 1976. “Six Neo-Sumerian Letter-Orders.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 28: 161–68.

  • history: P. Michalowski, Letters 107: 210,

    [sec14398] N.d.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: SM 1899.02.404
  • Accession No.: 01782

  • Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Šulgi.48.04.00 (us2-us2 year)
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  • Accounting Period: 0

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2011-07-22 at 13:40:06 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:19:22 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:20:48 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
“MVN 11, 003 Artifact Entry.” 2001. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). December 20, 2001. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P116017.
MVN 11, 003 artifact entry (No. P116017). (2001, December 20). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P116017
MVN 11, 003 artifact entry (2001) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P116017 (Accessed: April 19, 2024).
@misc{2001MVN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-04-19]},
	year = {2001},
	month = {dec 20},
	title = {MVN 11, 003 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P116017},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P116017},
}


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PY  - 2001
ID  - P116017
LB  - CDLI:P116017
M1  - 2024/4/19/
TI  - MVN 11, 003 artifact entry
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