BM 016001 (P206264)

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

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 016001

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tag

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (pisan-dub-ba Label: pisan-dub-ba nì-ka9-ak kit-tum sipa udu-gi-ke4-ne gìr Lú-kal-la åà Gú-ab-ba.ki [ì-gál] (CBT 2))

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has fragments

Text

tablet
obverse
1. pisan-dub-ba
 en: Basket-of-tablets:
2. nig2-ka9-ak e2-tum
 en: accounts, ‘chambers’
3. sipa udu-gi-ke4-ne
 en: shepherds of native sheep,
4. giri3 lu2-kal-la
 en: via Lukalla,
5. sza3 gu2-ab-ba{ki}
 en: in Guabba.
reverse
  broken

Textual annotations

#new_text=P206264 # ID FORM SEGM XPOSTAG HEAD DEPREL MISC # ID FORM LEMMA UPOSTAG XPOSTAG FEATS HEAD DEPREL DEPS MISC 1 pisan-dub-ba bisagdubak[filing_basket] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 2 nig2-ka9-ak nigSZID[account] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 3 e2-tum bitum[administrative_term] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 4 sipa sipa[shepherd] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 5 udu-gi-ke4-ne udugi[native_sheep] NOUN N Number=Plur|Case=Gen,Gen _ _ _ _ 6 giri3 giri[foot] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 7 lu2-kal-la Lukala[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing|Case=Gen _ _ _ _ 8 sza3 szag[heart] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 9 gu2-ab-ba{ki} Gu'abba[1] PROPN SN Number=Sing|Case=Gen _ _ _ _

Text content

Genre(s) Administrative (pisan-dub-ba Label: pisan-dub-ba nì-ka9-ak kit-tum sipa udu-gi-ke4-ne gìr Lú-kal-la åà Gú-ab-ba.ki [ì-gál] (CBT 2))
Language(s) Sumerian

Chronology

Period Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Accounting Period

Record

P206264 leadP206264 lead

LOD URI https://cdli.network/entity/P206264

Physical information

Artifact type Tag
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s) Clay
Preservation Fragmented

Provenance

Provenience Girsu (mod. Tello)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s) British Museum, London, UK
Museum Number BM 016001
Accession Number 1896-06-12, 0221

External resources

External Resource Identifiers
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS) 039256
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) BM.16001
British Museum Collection (BM) W_1896-0612-221

Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-08-19 at 13:39:11 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact metadata Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune Approved View
2023-01-19 at 10:02:26 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact metadata Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie Approved View
2022-12-04 at 11:30:39 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Annotation McGrath, William; Wang Jinyan Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages Pagé-Perron, Émilie Approved View
2016-12-12 at 08:42:59 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2015-05-06 at 08:16:37 CDLI, CDLI Transliteration CDLI, CDLI CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2014-09-29 at 15:50:10 Heinle, Michael Transliteration Heinle, Michael CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2014-08-19 at 19:41:37 Heinle, Michael Transliteration Heinle, Michael CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2002-07-11 at 00:00:00 CDLI, CDLI Artifact metadata Alivernini, Sergio; Alster, Bendt; Englund, Robert K.; Molina, Manuel; Reid, Nicholas CDLI, CDLI Approved View

Cite this Artifact

“BM 016001 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P206264.
BM 016001 artifact entry (No. P206264). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P206264 (Original work published 2002)
BM 016001 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P206264 (Accessed: October 23, 2026).
@misc{2023BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-23]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {BM 016001 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P206264},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P206264},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P206264
LB  - CDLI:P206264
M1  - 2026/10/23/
TI  - BM 016001 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P206264
ER  -

Cite this Artifact

“BM 016001 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P206264.
BM 016001 artifact entry (No. P206264). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P206264 (Original work published 2002)
BM 016001 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P206264 (Accessed: October 23, 2026).
@misc{2023BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-23]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {BM 016001 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P206264},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P206264},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P206264
LB  - CDLI:P206264
M1  - 2026/10/23/
TI  - BM 016001 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P206264
ER  -
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