Amherst 121 (P100960)

Administrative tag excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Amherst, unlocated (dispersed)

Museum Collection(s)

Amherst, unlocated (dispersed)

Museum Number

Anonymous 100960

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tag

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (pisan-dub-ba)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Text

object tag
obverse
1. pisan-dub-ba
 en: Basket-of-tablets:
2. dub gid2-da
 en: long-tablets,
3. sze erin2 gi-zi
 en: barley of the (labor-)troops of fodder-reed,
4. ba-zi dumu na-silim
 en: Bazi, son of Nasilim,
5. i3-gal2
 en: are here;
reverse
  blank space
1. mu en {d}nanna kar-zi-da ba-hun
 en: year: “The en(-priestess) of Nanna of Karzida was hired.”

Textual annotations

#new_text=P100960 # ID FORM LEMMA UPOSTAG XPOSTAG FEATS HEAD DEPREL DEPS MISC 1 pisan-dub-ba bisagdubak[filing_basket] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 2 dub dub[tablet] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 3 gid2-da gid[long] VERB V _ _ _ _ _ 4 sze sze[barley] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 5 erin2 erin[people] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 6 gi-zi gizi[reed] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Gen _ _ _ _ 7 ba-zi Bazi[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 8 dumu dumu[child] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 9 na-silim Nasilim[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Abs _ _ _ _ 10 i3-gal2 ni] VERB V Verb Form=Fin|Person=3|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 11 mu mu[year] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 12 en en[priest] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 13 {d}nanna Nanna[1] PROPN DN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 14 kar-zi-da Karzida[1] PROPN SN Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Gen,Abs _ _ _ _ 15 ba-hun hug[hire] VERB V Voice=Mid|Person=3|Number=Sing _ _ _ _

Text content

Genre(s) Administrative (pisan-dub-ba)
Language(s) Sumerian

Chronology

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

Record

LOD URI https://cdli.network/entity/P100960

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) Amherst, unlocated (dispersed)
Museum Number Anonymous 100960
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource Identifiers
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS) 001656

References

  • primary: Amherst, 121

    [Pinches1908Amherst] Pinches, Theophilus G. 1908. The Amherst Tablets : Being an Account of the Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, at Didlington Hall, Norfolk.

  • history: Nelson pisan-dub-ba, no. 040

    [Nelson1976pisandubba] Nelson, Richard C. 1976. “Pisan-Dub-Ba Texts from the Sumerian Ur III Dynasty.” Phdthesis, University of Minnesota.

Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-10-08 at 14:04:21 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard 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 08:42:57 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2015-05-06 at 08:16:31 CDLI Transliteration CDLI CDLI Approved View
2011-07-22 at 13:17:56 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:04:48 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2009-06-03 at 09:39:04 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:14:45 CDLI Transliteration CDLI CDLI Approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact metadata CDLI CDLI Approved View

Cite this Artifact

“Amherst 121 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 8, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P100960.
Amherst 121 artifact entry (No. P100960). (2024, October 8). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P100960 (Original work published 2001)
Amherst 121 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P100960 (Accessed: May 14, 2026).
@misc{2024Amherst,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-05-14]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 8},
	title = {Amherst 121 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P100960},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P100960},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/10/8/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P100960
LB  - CDLI:P100960
M1  - 2026/5/14/
TI  - Amherst 121 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P100960
ER  -

Cite this Artifact

“Amherst 121 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 8, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P100960.
Amherst 121 artifact entry (No. P100960). (2024, October 8). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P100960 (Original work published 2001)
Amherst 121 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P100960 (Accessed: May 14, 2026).
@misc{2024Amherst,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-05-14]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 8},
	title = {Amherst 121 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P100960},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P100960},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/10/8/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P100960
LB  - CDLI:P100960
M1  - 2026/5/14/
TI  - Amherst 121 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P100960
ER  -
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