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BM 085029 (P381128)

Administrative tablet & envelope 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 085029

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 2(u) 3(asz) 3(barig) 3(ban2) u3-hu-in gur lugal
2. 5(asz) 2(barig) zu2-lum al-hul-a gur
3. ki ur-ab-ba-ta
4. sza3-gal szah2 e2-kikken2-sze3
reverse
1. ur#-{d}inanna ugula
2. szu ba-ti
3. giri3 lu2-{d}nin-szubur
1 line erased
4. mu# en-mah-gal-an#-na ba-hun
envelope
obverse
1. 2(u) 3(asz) 3(barig) 3(ban2) u3-hu-in gur lugal
2. 5(asz) 2(barig) zu2-lum al-hul gur
3. ki ur-ab-ba-ta
4. sza3-gal szah2 e2-kikken2-sze3
5. kiszib3 lu2-{d}nin-szubur
6. x lu2-{d}ba-ba6
reverse
beginning broken
1'. mu# [en-mah-gal-an-na] en# [{d}inanna ba-hun]

Consult previous versions and their differences
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

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet & envelope
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Administrative
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

history: CBT 3, ,

[CBT32006] Sigrist, Marcel, Ran Zadok, and Christopher B. F. Walker. 2006. Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum. Vol. 3. British Museum Press.
citation: BBVO 10, p. 39 n. 133

[Englund1990Fischerei] Englund, Robert K. 1990. Organisation Und Verwaltung Der Ur III-Fischerei. Berliner Beiträge Zum Vorderen Orient, Band 10. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 085029
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Amar-Suen.04.00.00
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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
2023-01-21 at 07:56:19	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
2012-07-05 at 14:54:26	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2007-12-12 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Cripps, Eric L.; Molina, Manuel		CDLI	approved

External Resources

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Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (078464)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.85029)
The British Museum Collection (W_1899-0116-67-a)

Seals

This artifact is impressed by the following seal(s):

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 003198 (composite) (P455908)	Girsu (mod. Tello)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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“BM 085029 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P381128.

BM 085029 artifact entry (No. P381128). (2023, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P381128 (Original work published 2007)

BM 085029 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P381128 (Accessed: April 26, 2024).

@misc{2023BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-04-26]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {oct 28},
	title = {BM 085029 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P381128},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P381128},
}

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ER  -

“BM 085029 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P381128.

BM 085029 artifact entry (No. P381128). (2023, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P381128 (Original work published 2007)

BM 085029 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P381128 (Accessed: April 26, 2024).

@misc{2023BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-04-26]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {oct 28},
	title = {BM 085029 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P381128},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P381128},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/10/28/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P381128
LB  - CDLI:P381128
M1  - 2024/4/26/
TI  - BM 085029 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P381128
ER  -

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