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Orient 16, 087 129 (P124737)

Administrative tablet excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

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World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Museum Number

WML 51.63.106

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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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 2(asz) 2(barig) sze gur lugal
2. sza3-gal aga3-us2 dumu nigin6{ki}-sze3
blank space
3. guru7 bur-sag-ta
4. ki ma-ni-ta
5. kiszib3 ur-{d}lamma <dumu> lu2-dingir-ra ugula
reverse
1. giri3 sanga {d}nin-mar{ki}
2. iti sze-sag11-ku5
blank space
3. mu si-<mu>-ur4-ru-um lu-lu-bu-um{ki} a-ra2 1(u) la2 1(disz)-<kam-asz> ba-hul
seal 1
1. ur-{d}lamma
2. dub-sar
3. dumu lu2-[dingir-ra]

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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World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

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

Related publications

primary: Orient 16 (pp. 1-110), p. 87 129

[Gomi1980Liverpool] Gomi, Tohru. 1980. “Administrative Texts of the Third Dynasty of Ur in the Merseyside County Museums, Liverpool.” Orient, Report of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan 16: 1–110.

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Composite No.:
Museum No.: WML 51.63.106
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
Elevation:
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Excavation No:
Findspot Square:
Findspot Comments:

Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Šulgi.44.11.00
Alternative Years: SH25 SH32 IS03
Date Comments:
Accounting Period: 0

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Reviewer	Status
2024-08-17 at 08:44:01	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard	Firth, Richard	approved
2017-07-22 at 14:06:22	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Atf	Englund, Robert K.	CDLI	approved
2011-07-22 at 13:53:17	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.	CDLI	approved
2011-05-02 at 14:28:04	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.	CDLI	approved
2009-06-03 at 10:38:04	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.	CDLI	approved
2006-10-12 at 12:24:16	CDLI	Atf	CDLI	CDLI	approved
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	CDLI	CDLI	approved

External Resources

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Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (022964)

Seals

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

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 004997 (composite) (P457707)	Girsu (mod. Tello)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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“Orient 16, 087 129 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 17, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P124737.

Orient 16, 087 129 artifact entry (No. P124737). (2024, August 17). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P124737 (Original work published 2001)

Orient 16, 087 129 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P124737 (Accessed: April 18, 2025).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-18]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {aug 17},
	title = {Orient 16, 087 129 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P124737},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P124737},
}

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“Orient 16, 087 129 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 17, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P124737.

Orient 16, 087 129 artifact entry (No. P124737). (2024, August 17). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P124737 (Original work published 2001)

Orient 16, 087 129 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P124737 (Accessed: April 18, 2025).

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	year = {2024},
	month = {aug 17},
	title = {Orient 16, 087 129 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P124737},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P124737},
}

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