MVN 12, 484 (P116746)

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

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 016087

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

-

tablet
obverse
1. 1(asz) sze-gesz-i3 gur
2. a2 gesz-gar-ra
3. lu2-e2-gibil4-le{ki}
4. i3-ba geme2 usz-bar-sze3
5. ki ur-ab-ba-ta
reverse
1. ur-{d}nin-gesz-zi-da
2. szu ba-ti
  1 line blank
3. iti mu-szu-du7
4. mu ma2-gur8-mah ba-dim2

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)

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


  • primary: MVN 12, 484

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

  • history: RA 58, p.97-110, p. 105 90

    [Lambert1964Urabba] Lambert, Maurice, and Hugo H. Figulla. 1964. “Les Archives de Urabba Fils de Bazig (II).” Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archéologie Orientale 58: 97–110.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: BM 016087
  • Accession No.: 1896-06-12, 0307

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

  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.08.09.00
  • Alternative Years:
  • Date Comments:
  • Accounting Period:

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-08-19 at 13:32:21 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-03-09 at 12:32:19 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Gacia, Veronika; Sallaberger, Walther Vegetable Oils and Animal Fats in Early Urban Societies of Syro-Mesopotamia Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
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 View
2022-08-06 at 16:54:17 Lafont, Bertrand Atf Lafont, Bertrand CDLI approved View
2011-07-22 at 13:41:14 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:20:05 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:21:07 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

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

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes: -

Cite this Artifact

“MVN 12, 484 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P116746.
MVN 12, 484 artifact entry (No. P116746). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P116746 (Original work published 2001)
MVN 12, 484 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P116746 (Accessed: November 16, 2025).
@misc{2023MVN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-11-16]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {MVN 12, 484 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P116746},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P116746},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P116746
LB  - CDLI:P116746
M1  - 2025/11/16/
TI  - MVN 12, 484 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P116746
ER  - 

Cite this Artifact

“MVN 12, 484 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P116746.
MVN 12, 484 artifact entry (No. P116746). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P116746 (Original work published 2001)
MVN 12, 484 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P116746 (Accessed: November 16, 2025).
@misc{2023MVN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-11-16]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {MVN 12, 484 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P116746},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P116746},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P116746
LB  - CDLI:P116746
M1  - 2025/11/16/
TI  - MVN 12, 484 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P116746
ER  - 
This website uses essential cookies that are necessary for it to work properly. These cookies are enabled by default.