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SAT 1, 118 (P131227)

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

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Text / annotations

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Chemical Data

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 020143

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. 1(asz) gur zi3-gu saga sza3-gal lugal
2. 1(asz) 1(barig) 4(ban2) gur zi3-gu saga szagina
3. 5(ban2) 2(disz) sila3 zi3 ba-ba saga
4. 1(barig) zi3 gu2?-nida
5. 1(ban2) 8(disz) 2/3(disz) sila3 esza saga
6. 4(ban2) zi3-gu us2
7. nar tur um-mi-a
8. 2(ban2) zi3-gu us2
9. gala-me
reverse
1. 2(ban2) zi3 ba-ba saga
2. 1(asz) gur zi3 gu2?-nida
3. nig2 i3-udu-sze3
4. 4(disz) sila3 zi3 ba-ba sze
5. 4(disz) sila3 zi3 sze sa
6. dug tu7-sze3
7. 2(asz) gur zi3 ba-ba saga
8. sa2-du11 nin-e-ne
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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
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Text Information

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

Related publications

primary: SAT 1, 118

[Sigrist1993SAT1] Sigrist, Marcel. 1993. Texts from the British Museum. Sumerian Archival Texts 1. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press.

Flour for singers and gala

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 020143
Accession No.: 1895-10-17, 0183

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: --.--.00.00
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-07-04 at 10:57:37	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-08-19 at 13:27:14	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-03-09 at 12:32:19	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Gacia, Veronika; Sallaberger, Walther	Vegetable Oils and Animal Fats in Early Urban Societies of Syro-Mesopotamia	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2023-01-19 at 09:57:24	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2011-07-22 at 14:04:05	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2011-05-02 at 14:34:54	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2006-10-12 at 12:27:00	CDLI	Transliteration	CDLI		CDLI	Approved
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	CDLI		CDLI	Approved

External Resources

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

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (035864) (035864)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.20143) (BM.20143)
Vegetable Oils and Animal Fats in Early Urban Societies of Syro-Mesopotamia (11569) (11569)
British Museum Collection (W_1895-1017-183) (W_1895-1017-183)

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Cite this Artifacts

“SAT 1, 118 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P131227.

SAT 1, 118 artifact entry (No. P131227). (2024, July 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P131227 (Original work published 2001)

SAT 1, 118 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P131227 (Accessed: February 13, 2026).

@misc{2024SAT,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-13]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 4},
	title = {SAT 1, 118 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P131227},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P131227},
}

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M1  - 2026/2/13/
TI  - SAT 1, 118 artifact entry
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ER  -

Cite this Artifacts

“SAT 1, 118 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P131227.

SAT 1, 118 artifact entry (No. P131227). (2024, July 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P131227 (Original work published 2001)

SAT 1, 118 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P131227 (Accessed: February 13, 2026).

@misc{2024SAT,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-13]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 4},
	title = {SAT 1, 118 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P131227},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P131227},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/4/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P131227
LB  - CDLI:P131227
M1  - 2026/2/13/
TI  - SAT 1, 118 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P131227
ER  -