Administrative tag 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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Transliteration
object tag
obverse
1. pisan-dub-ba
en: Basket-of-tablets:
2. nig2-ka9-ak
en: accounts
3. gu4 udu
en: of oxen and sheeps
4. mu#
en: year (incomplete or effaced)
the year using the remaining two lines, before realizing
he had omitted the standard closing formula
5. i3-gal2
en: are here
reverse
1. mu en-mah-gal-an-na en {d}nanna ba-hun
en: Year: "Enmahgalanna, the en-priestess of Nanna, was installed"