CDLI Seals 006350 (physical) (P226633)

Administrative Cylinder seal excavated in Uncertain (mod. uncertain), 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 089131

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

uncertain (mod. uncertain)

Material(s)

Mineral > Calcite

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Seal

object cylinder seal
surface a
1. {d}mes-lam-ta-e3-a
 en: For Meslamtaea,
2. lugal a2 zi-da
 en: the king who is the right arm
3. lagasz{ki}-ke4
 en: of Lagaš,
4. nam-ti-il
 en: for the life
5. {d}szul-gi nita kal-ga
 en: of Šulgi,
6. lugal uri5{ki}-ma-ka-sze3
 en: the king of Ur,
7. ki-lu5-la gu-za-la2
 en: Kilula the chair-bearer,
8. dumu ur-ba-gara2-ke4
 en: son of Ur-Bagara,
9. mu-na-dim2 kiszib3-ba
 en: fashioned (this) for him. This seal:
10. lugal-mu gesztu3 nig2-sa6-ga-ka-ni
 en: My King, By His Excellent Intelligence
11. ga-an-ti-il
 en: May I Live
12. mu-bi
 en: is its name.

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Consult sign list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Consult word list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

#new_text=P226633 # ID FORM LEMMA UPOSTAG XPOSTAG FEATS HEAD DEPREL DEPS MISC 1 {d}mes-lam-ta-e3-a Meslamta'e'a[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 2 lugal lugal[king] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 3 a2 a[arm] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 4 zi-da zid[right] VERB V _ _ _ _ _ 5 lagasz{ki}-ke4 Lagasz[1] PROPN SN Number=Sing|Case=Gen|Animacy=Nhum _ _ _ _ 6 nam-ti-il namtil[life] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 7 {d}szul-gi Szulgir[1] PROPN RN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 8 nita nita[male] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 9 kal-ga kalag[strong] VERB V _ _ _ _ _ 10 lugal lugal[king] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 11 uri5{ki}-ma-ka-sze3 Urim[1] PROPN SN Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Gen _ _ _ _ 12 ki-lu5-la Kilula[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 13 gu-za-la2 guzala[throne_bearer] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 14 dumu dumu[child] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 15 ur-ba-gara2-ke4 Urbagara[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Erg _ _ _ _ 16 mu-na-dim2 dim[create] VERB V Person=3|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 17 kiszib3-ba kiszib[seal] NOUN N Number=Sing|Animacy=Nhum _ _ _ _ 18 lugal-mu lugal[king] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 19 gesztu3 gesztug[wisdom] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 20 nig2-sa6-ga-ka-ni nigsaga[goodness] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Gen|Animacy=Hum _ _ _ _ 21 ga-an-ti-il til[live] VERB V _ _ _ _ _ 22 mu-bi mu[name] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Abs|Animacy=Nhum _ _ _ _

  • Artifact type: Cylinder seal Artifact type comments:

    physical

  • Material: Mineral > Calcite
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  • Seal no.: S006350
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    physical

  • primary: RIME 3/2, .01.02.x2039, ex. 01

    [Frayne1997RIME3/2] Frayne, Douglas R. 1997. Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC). Vol. 3/2. Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Early Periods. University of Toronto Press.

  • history: WAS 2, 470

    [Collon1982WAS2] Collon, Dominique. 1982. Akkadian, Post Akkadian, Ur III Periods. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum, II.

  • history: Frankfort Cyl. Seals, pl. 25c

    [Frankfort1939CylSeals] Frankfort, Henri. 1939. Cylinder Seals: A Documentary Essay on the Art and Religion of the Ancient Near East. Macmillan.

  • history: CT 21, pl. 09 BM 089131

    [King1905CT21] King, Leonard W. 1905. Cuneiform Texts. Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum 21.

  • history: Pinches Seals, pl. 1:3

    [Pinches1885Seals] Pinches, Theophilus G. n.d. “The Babylonian and Assyrian Cylinder-Seals of the British Museum,” Journal of the British Archaeological Association, , no. vol. 41, Issue 4.

  • history: Ward, Seal Cylinder, 436

    [Ward1910SealCyl] Ward, William H. 1910. The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia. Carnegie Institute of Washington.

  • citation: Fs Owen p.143-158, p. 152-156

    [Such-Gutiérrez2010Königsinschriften] Such-Gutiérrez, Marcos. 2010. “Die Königsinschriften Des III. Jahrtausends Im British Museum. Ein Erster Bericht Und Fünf Neue Texte.” In Why Should Someone Who Know Something Conceal It? Cuneiform Studies in Honor of David I. Owen on His 70th Birthday, edited by Alexandra Kleinerman and Jack M. Sasson, 143–58. Bethesda: CDL Press.

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  • Museum No.: BM 089131
  • Accession No.: 1907-11-15, 0001

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-09-22 at 14:47:43 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-02-29 at 19:30:47 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-07-26 at 18:31:04 Firth, Richard Artifact Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-01-19 at 10:11:27 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact 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
2014-04-14 at 17:40:12 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2012-09-25 at 16:39:20 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2012-09-21 at 10:09:18 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-07-22 at 14:42:41 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2008-01-27 at 19:40:52 Dahl, Jacob L. Atf Dahl, Jacob L. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:35:40 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2003-08-19 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Englund, Robert K.; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Frayne, Douglas R.; Johnson, J. Cale CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“CDLI Seals 006350 (Physical) Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 22, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P226633.
CDLI Seals 006350 (physical) artifact entry (No. P226633). (2024, September 22). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P226633 (Original work published 2003)
CDLI Seals 006350 (physical) artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P226633 (Accessed: April 30, 2025).
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P226633},
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