ASJ 02, 007 09 (P101912)

Administrative tablet & envelope excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), 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 012487

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 2(asz)! sze gur lugal
2. sze-ba u3 a-sza3 gesz-gi-banda3{da}
3. mu erin2-na-sze3
4. ki lugal-ki-gal-la
reverse
1. mu nita2-sa6-ga-sze3
2. lu2-uru11{ki}
3. szu ba-ti
double ruling
4. iti amar-a-a-si
envelope
beginning broken
1'. ki# lugal#-[ki-gal-la]
2'. mu nita2-sa6-ga-sze3
3'. kiszib3 lu2-uru11{ki} ugula ma2-lah5
reverse
1. giri3 ur-tur gu-za-la2
2. dumu# tul2-ta
rest broken
seal 1
1. lu2-uru11{ki}
2. dumu x-x
3. x [...]

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)

Textual annotations

#new_text=P101912 # ID FORM LEMMA UPOSTAG XPOSTAG FEATS HEAD DEPREL DEPS MISC 1 2(asz) 2(asz)[one] NUM NU _ _ _ _ _ 2 sze sze[barley] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 3 gur gur[unit] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 4 lugal lugal[king] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 5 sze-ba szeba[ration] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 6 u3 u[and] CCONJ CNJ _ _ _ _ _ 7 a-sza3 aszag[field] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 8 gesz-gi-banda3{da} Geszgibanda[1] PROPN FN Number=Sing|Case=Abs _ _ _ _ 9 mu mu[name] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 10 erin2-na-sze3 erin[people] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Gen _ _ _ _ 11 ki ki[place] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 12 lugal-ki-gal-la Lugalkigala[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Abl _ _ _ _ 13 mu mu[name] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 14 nita2-sa6-ga-sze3 Nitasaga[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing|Case=Gen _ _ _ _ 15 lu2-uru11{ki} Lu'uru[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing|Case=Erg _ _ _ _ 16 szu szu[hand] NOUN N Number=Sing|Animacy=Nhum _ _ _ _ 17 ba-ti n] VERB V Voice=Mid|Person=3|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 18 iti iti[month] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 19 amar-a-a-si Amarayasi[1] PROPN MN Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 20 ki ki[place] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 21 lugal-ki-gal-la Lugalkigala[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Abl _ _ _ _ 22 mu mu[year] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 23 nita2-sa6-ga-sze3 Nitasaga[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing|Case=Gen _ _ _ _ 24 kiszib3 kiszib[seal] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 25 lu2-uru11{ki} Lu'uru[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 26 ugula ugula[overseer] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 27 ma2-lah5 malah[sailor] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Gen _ _ _ _ 28 giri3 giri[foot] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 29 ur-tur Urtur[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 30 gu-za-la2 guzala[throne_bearer] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 31 dumu dumu[child] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 32 tul2-ta Tulta[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Gen _ _ _ _ 33 lu2-uru11{ki} Lu'uru[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 34 dumu dumu[child] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 35 x-x _[_] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 36 x _[_] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 37 ... _[_] _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet & envelope
Material: Clay
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Text Information

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

Related publications

primary: ASJ 2, p.1-36, p. 7 9

[Gomi1980BM1] Gomi, Tohru. 1980. “Neo-Sumerian Administrative Tablets in the British Museum, I.” Acta Sumerologica 2: 1–36.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 012487
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Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: 00.00.10.00
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-10-28 at 21:03:16	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune; Taylor, Jonathan	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-01-19 at 09:57:24	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
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
2011-07-22 at 13:19:16	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2011-05-02 at 14:05:31	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2009-06-03 at 09:42:14	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2006-10-12 at 12:15:00	CDLI	Atf	CDLI		CDLI	approved
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	CDLI		CDLI	approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (022638) (022638)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.12487) (BM.12487)
The British Museum Collection (W_1895-1214-99-a) (W_1895-1214-99-a)

Seals

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

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 006414 (composite) (P464042)	Girsu (mod. Tello)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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Cite this Artifact

“ASJ 02, 007 09 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P101912.

ASJ 02, 007 09 artifact entry (No. P101912). (2023, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P101912 (Original work published 2001)

ASJ 02, 007 09 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P101912 (Accessed: September 1, 2025).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P101912},
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Cite this Artifact

“ASJ 02, 007 09 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P101912.

ASJ 02, 007 09 artifact entry (No. P101912). (2023, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P101912 (Original work published 2001)

ASJ 02, 007 09 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P101912 (Accessed: September 1, 2025).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-09-01]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {oct 28},
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P101912},
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