BRM 3, 168 (P107368)

Administrative tag excavated in Umma (mod. Tell Jokha), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in J. Pierpont Morgan Library Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

J. Pierpont Morgan Library Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Museum Number

MLC 02450

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)

Artifact Type

Tag

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (pisan-dub-ba)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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object tag
obverse
1. pisan-dub-ba
en: Basket-of-tablets:
2. e2-tum
en: ‘chambers’ of
3. {d}en-lil2-la2
en: Enlila
4. igi-sze3
en: openly
5. en3-bi tar-re
en: are to be investigated;
6. giri3 gu-za-ni
en: via Guzani.
reverse
blank space

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=P107368 # ID FORM LEMMA UPOSTAG XPOSTAG FEATS HEAD DEPREL DEPS MISC 1 pisan-dub-ba bisagdubak[filing_basket] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 2 e2-tum bitum[administrative_term] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 3 {d}en-lil2-la2 Enlil[1] PROPN DN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing|Case=Gen _ _ _ _ 4 igi-sze3 igi[eye] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 5 en3-bi en[word] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Abs|Animacy=Hum _ _ _ _ 6 tar-re tar[ask] VERB V _ _ _ _ _ 7 giri3 giri[foot] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 8 gu-za-ni Guzani[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing|Case=Gen _ _ _ _

Collections

J. Pierpont Morgan Library Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tag
Material: Clay
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Text Information

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

Related publications

primary: BRM 3, 168

[Keiser1914BRM3] Keiser, Clarence E. 1914. Cuneiform Bullae of the Third Millennium B.C. Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan, Part 3. New Haven: Yale University Press.
history: RA 057 (pp. 93-97), 096 11

[FishLambert1963RA57] Fish, Thomas, and Maurice Lambert. 1963. “« Vérification » Dans La Bureaucratie Sumérienne.” Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archéologie Orientale 57: 93–97.
history: Nelson pisan-dub-ba, no. 059

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

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: MLC 02450
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Provenience

Provenience: Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) [uncertain]
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: 00.00.00.00
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-10-08 at 14:04:21	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	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
2017-07-11 at 12:34:02	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2015-05-06 at 08:17:28	CDLI	Atf	CDLI		CDLI	approved
2011-07-22 at 13:27:10	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2011-05-02 at 14:10:32	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2009-06-03 at 09:55:15	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2006-10-12 at 12:17:34	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 (003920) (003920)
Yale Babylonian Collection (BC-002397) (BC-002397)
Electronic Babylonian Library (MLC.2450) (MLC.2450)

Notes

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Cite this Artifact

“BRM 3, 168 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 8, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P107368.

BRM 3, 168 artifact entry (No. P107368). (2024, October 8). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P107368 (Original work published 2001)

BRM 3, 168 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P107368 (Accessed: December 8, 2025).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-08]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 8},
	title = {BRM 3, 168 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P107368},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P107368},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“BRM 3, 168 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 8, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P107368.

BRM 3, 168 artifact entry (No. P107368). (2024, October 8). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P107368 (Original work published 2001)

BRM 3, 168 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P107368 (Accessed: December 8, 2025).

@misc{2024BRM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-08]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 8},
	title = {BRM 3, 168 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P107368},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P107368},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/10/8/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P107368
LB  - CDLI:P107368
M1  - 2025/12/8/
TI  - BRM 3, 168 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P107368
ER  -