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RTC 083 (P216862)

Letter tablet excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), dated to the Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC) period and now kept in Louvre Museum, Paris, France

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Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Museum Number

AO 02694

Period

Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Letter

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tablet
obverse
beginning broken
1'. puzur4#-{d}[...]
Sommerfeld, ARI 3, 272: ma-ma excluded
2'. ensi2# lagasz#[{ki}-ke4]
3'. na#-be2-a
4'. 1(asz@c) zu2-lum{ki}
5'. 1(asz@c) e2-{gesz}apin{ki}
6'. u4 szar-ru-gi-[...]
7'. ki-sur-ra lagasz{ki}
8'. ur-{d}utu-ke4
9'. nam#-ensi2 uri5#{ki}-ma
reverse
1. {d}na-ra-am-{d}suen#-[ra]
2. i3-na-ak-ka
3. 2(asz@c) ma-na ku3-sig17
4. kadra ib2-szi-ak
5. ur-e2 ensi2 lagasz{ki}-ke4
6. ba-da-kar
7. e3#-li2-[...]
8. [...] lagasz#{ki#} [...]
rest broken
left
1. he2-eb2-mi-[...]

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)
Consult word list of Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)

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Louvre Museum, Paris, France

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Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Genre(s): Letter
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primary: RTC, 83

[Thureau-Dangin1903RTC] Thureau-Dangin, François. 1903. Recueil de Tablettes Chaldéennes. Paris: Ernest Leroux.
history: FAOS 19, Gir 26

[Kienast1995FAOS19] Kienast, Burkhart, and Konrad Volk. 1995. Die Sumerischen Und Akkadischen Briefe Des III. Jahrtausends Aus Der Zeit Vor Der III. Dynastie von Ur (SAB). Freiburger Altorientalische Studien, Band 19. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.
history: P. Michalowski, Letters no. 4,

[sec25398] N.d.
history: RA 004, pl. 09, no. 31,

[sec25399] N.d.
citation: Sommerfeld, Walter, ARI 3 (2015) 272,

[sec25400] N.d.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: AO 02694
Accession No.: AOTb 010

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Chronology

Period: Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)
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Accounting Period: 0

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-04-11 at 16:18:03	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2016-07-28 at 15:57:29	CDLI	Atf	CDLI		CDLI	approved
2015-04-28 at 08:40:22	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2012-11-16 at 12:05:31	Brumfield, Sara	Atf	Brumfield, Sara		CDLI	approved
2006-10-12 at 12:34:08	CDLI	Atf	CDLI		CDLI	approved
1970-01-01 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Ajango, Kelsey M.; Englund, Robert K.; Friberg, Jöran; Goetze, Albrecht; Kienast, Burkhart; Kraus, Nicholas		CDLI	approved

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Louvre Collections (cl010151309)

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“RTC 083 Artifact Entry.” (1970) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). April 11, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P216862.

RTC 083 artifact entry (No. P216862). (2023, April 11). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P216862 (Original work published 1970)

RTC 083 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P216862 (Accessed: April 20, 2024).

@misc{2023RTC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-04-20]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {apr 11},
	title = {RTC 083 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P216862},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P216862},
}

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“RTC 083 Artifact Entry.” (1970) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). April 11, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P216862.

RTC 083 artifact entry (No. P216862). (2023, April 11). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P216862 (Original work published 1970)

RTC 083 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P216862 (Accessed: April 20, 2024).

@misc{2023RTC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-04-20]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {apr 11},
	title = {RTC 083 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P216862},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P216862},
}

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M1  - 2024/4/20/
TI  - RTC 083 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P216862
ER  -

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