BM 016032 (P317338)

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 016032

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 about the rations for female weavers (CBT 2))

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Text

tablet
obverse
1. pisan-dub-ba
 en: Basket-of-tablets:
2. [sze]-ba geme2 usz-bar
 en: barley rations of the female weavers,
3. [...] x [...] x
 en: ...,
  rest broken
reverse
1. i3-gal2
 en: are here.
  blank space
2. mu# {d}x-{d}suen# lugal x x na-ru2-a-mah mu-du3
 en: year: “...-Suen, the king, Great-Stele erected.”

Textual annotations

#new_text=P317338 # 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 sze-ba szeba[ration] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 3 geme2 geme[female_worker] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 4 usz-bar uszbar[garment_type] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Gen|Animacy=Hum _ _ _ _ 5 ... _[_] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 x _[_] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 ... _[_] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 x _[_] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 i3-gal2 ni] VERB V Verb Form=Fin|Person=3|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 10 mu mu[year] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 11 {d}x-{d}suen _[1] PROPN RN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 12 lugal lugal[king] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 13 x _[_] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 x _[_] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 na-ru2-a-mah naruamah[magnificent_stele] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Abs _ _ _ _ 16 mu-du3 n] VERB V Person=3|Number=Sing _ _ _ _

Text content

Genre(s) Administrative (pisan-dub-ba Label: pisan-dub-ba about the rations for female weavers (CBT 2))
Language(s) Sumerian

Chronology

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

Record

LOD URI https://cdli.network/entity/P317338

Physical information

Artifact type Tag
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s) Clay
Preservation

Provenance

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

Collections

Collection(s) British Museum, London, UK
Museum Number BM 016032
Accession Number 1896-06-12, 0252

External resources

External Resource Identifiers
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS) 039276
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) BM.16032
British Museum Collection (BM) W_1896-0612-252

References

  • history: CBT 2, BM 016032 (catalogue)

    [CBT21996] Sigrist, Marcel, Hugo Heinrich Figulla, and Christopher B. F. Walker. 1996. Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum. Vol. 2. British Museum Press.

Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-08-19 at 13:32:21 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact metadata Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune Approved View
2023-01-21 at 07:05:30 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
2016-06-29 at 19:19:16 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Ozaki Tohru CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2016-06-29 at 19:16:50 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2016-06-29 at 19:14:25 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
2006-04-04 at 00:00:00 CDLI, CDLI Artifact metadata Alivernini, Sergio; Molina, Manuel CDLI, CDLI Approved View

Cite this Artifact

“BM 016032 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P317338.
BM 016032 artifact entry (No. P317338). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P317338 (Original work published 2006)
BM 016032 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P317338 (Accessed: October 15, 2026).
@misc{2023BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-15]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {BM 016032 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P317338},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P317338},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P317338
LB  - CDLI:P317338
M1  - 2026/10/15/
TI  - BM 016032 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P317338
ER  -

Cite this Artifact

“BM 016032 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P317338.
BM 016032 artifact entry (No. P317338). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P317338 (Original work published 2006)
BM 016032 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P317338 (Accessed: October 15, 2026).
@misc{2023BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-15]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {BM 016032 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P317338},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P317338},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P317338
LB  - CDLI:P317338
M1  - 2026/10/15/
TI  - BM 016032 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P317338
ER  -
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