JavaScript is disabled or not supported in your browser. If possible, enable it for a better experience.

MVN 12, 073 (P116335)

Administrative tablet excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

Metadata / catalogue

Flat catalogue

As CSV As TSV

Expanded catalogue

As JSON

Linked catalogue

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Text / annotations

Text data

As ATF As JTF

Linked annotations

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Related publications

As CSV As BibTeX

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

As CSV

Lineart

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 015203

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text

tablet
obverse
1. 4(asz) 2(barig) sze gur lugal
2. sze nig2-gal2-la
3. ki ur-{d}lamma dumu sa12-du5-ta
reverse
1. ib2#-ta-e3
2. szu ba-ti
blank space
3. iti <ezem>-{d}li9-si4
4. mu us2-sa ur-bi2-lum ba-hul

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)

Collections

British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
Measurements (mm):
Weight:
Artifact Preservation:
Condition Description:
Join Information:
Seal no.:
Seal information:
Artifact comments:

Text Information

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

Related publications

primary: MVN 12, 73

[Gomi1982MVN12] Gomi, Tohru. 1982. Wirtschaftstexte Der Ur III-Zeit Aus Dem British Museum. Materiali per Il Vocabolario Neosumerico 12. Roma: Multigrafica Editrice.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 015203
Accession No.: 1896-04-08, 0398

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello) Provenience Comments:
< Ozaki
Elevation:
Stratigraphic Level:
Excavation No:
Findspot Square:
Findspot Comments:

Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Šulgi.46.03.00 (us2 year)
Alternative Years: AS03
Date Comments:
Accounting Period:

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
2022-08-02 at 16:26:14	Lafont, Bertrand	Atf	Lafont, Bertrand		CDLI	approved
2016-06-29 at 19:19:01	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Ozaki Tohru		CDLI	approved
2016-06-29 at 19:16:37	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2016-06-29 at 19:14:11	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2011-07-22 at 13:40:40	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2011-05-02 at 14:19:44	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2006-10-12 at 12:20:58	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 (024448) (024448)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.15203) (BM.15203)
The British Museum Collection (W_1896-0408-398) (W_1896-0408-398)

Notes

General Notes: -

CDLI Notes: -

Cite this Artifact

“MVN 12, 073 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P116335.

MVN 12, 073 artifact entry (No. P116335). (2023, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P116335 (Original work published 2001)

MVN 12, 073 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P116335 (Accessed: January 20, 2026).

@misc{2023MVN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-20]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {oct 28},
	title = {MVN 12, 073 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P116335},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P116335},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/10/28/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P116335
LB  - CDLI:P116335
M1  - 2026/1/20/
TI  - MVN 12, 073 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P116335
ER  -

Cite this Artifact

“MVN 12, 073 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P116335.

MVN 12, 073 artifact entry (No. P116335). (2023, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P116335 (Original work published 2001)

MVN 12, 073 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P116335 (Accessed: January 20, 2026).

@misc{2023MVN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-20]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {oct 28},
	title = {MVN 12, 073 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P116335},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P116335},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/10/28/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P116335
LB  - CDLI:P116335
M1  - 2026/1/20/
TI  - MVN 12, 073 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P116335
ER  -