Orient 55, 164 no. 11 (P424377)

Administrative tablet excavated in Umma (mod. Tell Jokha), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA

Metadata / catalogue

Flat catalogue

As CSV As TSV

Expanded catalogue

As JSON

Linked catalogue

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Text / annotations

Text data

As ATF As JTF

Linked annotations

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Related publications

As CSV As BibTeX

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

As CSV

Museum Collection(s)

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA

Museum Number

WCMA 20.1.10

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

40.0 mm × 43.0 mm

Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. 1(disz) udu
 en: 1 sheep
2. siskur2 ki-su7 a-sza3 GAN2-mah
 en: for the threshing-floor sacrifice of the field GAN-maḫ,
3. ki ur-{d}hal-mu-sza4-ta
 en: from Ur-Ḫalmuša,
reverse
1. kiszib3 lu2-[{d}ha]-ia3
 en: under seal of Lu-Ḫaya;
  blank space
  seal impression
2. mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal-e ma2-gur8-mah {d}en-lil2 {d}nin-lil2-ra mu-ne-du8
 en: year: “Šu-Suen the king built the great-barge for Enlil and Ninlil.”
  sic du8, “caulked”
seal 1
1. lu2-{d}ha-ia3#
 en: Lu-Ḫaya,
2. dub-sar
 en: scribe,
3. dumu ur-e11-e szusz3
 en: son of Ur-e’e, cattle manager.

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)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
  • Measurements (mm): 40.0 high × 43.0 wide
  • Weight:
  • Artifact Preservation:
  • Condition Description:
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.:
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:


  • primary: Orient 55, p.155-172, p. 164 no. 11

    [Liu2020Williams] Changyu, Liu. 2020. “The Neo-Sumerian Texts in the Williams College Museum of Art.” Orient, Report of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan 55: 155–72.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: WCMA 20.1.10
  • Accession No.:

  • Provenience: Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)
  • Elevation:
  • Stratigraphic Level:
  • Excavation No:
  • Findspot Square:
  • Findspot Comments:

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

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2020-06-12 at 08:09:44 Lafont, Bertrand Atf Lafont, Bertrand CDLI approved View
2014-01-14 at 17:34:41 Englund, Robert K. Atf Ozaki Tohru CDLI approved View
2013-06-17 at 14:55:39 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-10-25 at 08:53:36 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-10-08 at 11:14:51 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-10-07 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Freedman, Sally M. CDLI approved View

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

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

Seal Provenience Period Date
CDLI Seals 003102 (composite) (P455812) Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) Amar-Suen.06.00.00, Ibbi-Suen.02.10.00

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes: -
Cite this Artifact
“Orient 55, 164 No. 11 Artifact Entry.” 2011. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 7, 2011. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P424377.
Orient 55, 164 no. 11 artifact entry (No. P424377). (2011, October 7). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P424377
Orient 55, 164 no. 11 artifact entry (2011) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P424377 (Accessed: April 24, 2024).
@misc{2011Orient,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-04-24]},
	year = {2011},
	month = {oct 7},
	title = {Orient 55, 164 no. 11 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P424377},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P424377},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2011/10/7/
PY  - 2011
ID  - P424377
LB  - CDLI:P424377
M1  - 2024/4/24/
TI  - Orient 55, 164 no. 11 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P424377
ER  - 
This website uses essential cookies that are necessary for it to work properly. These cookies are enabled by default.