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SAT 1, 288 (P131397)

Administrative tablet & envelope 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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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 020942a

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 2(u) 5(asz) sze gur lugal
2. i3-dub bara2-si-ga
3. zi3 sze-ka
4. ki ur-{d}[...]
reverse
1. kiszib3 ur-{d}ma-ma
2. ra2-gaba
3. ugula sanga {d}nansze
4. iti diri sze-sag11-ku5
5. mu ha-ar-szi{ki} hu-ur5-ti{ki} ba-hul
seal 1
1. ur-{d}ma-ma
2. dumu ur-{d}ig-alim
3. lu2-mah {d}[...]

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 & envelope Artifact type comments:
unopened envelope
Material: Clay
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Seal information:
Artifact comments:
unopened envelope

Text Information

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

Related publications

primary: SAT 1, 288

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

Barley for flour

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 020942a
Accession No.: 1895-10-17, 0982a

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Šulgi.46.11d.00 (intercalated)
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-07-04 at 10:57:37	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2023-09-10 at 21:32:33	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2011-07-22 at 14:04:22	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2011-05-02 at 14:35:06	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2006-10-12 at 12:27:06	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 (036034) (036034)
The British Museum Collection (W_1895-1017-982-a) (W_1895-1017-982-a)

Seals

This artifact is impressed by the following seal(s):

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 005126 (composite) (P457836)	Girsu (mod. Tello)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Notes

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Cite this Artifact

“SAT 1, 288 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P131397.

SAT 1, 288 artifact entry (No. P131397). (2024, July 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P131397 (Original work published 2001)

SAT 1, 288 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P131397 (Accessed: December 24, 2025).

@misc{2024SAT,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-24]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 4},
	title = {SAT 1, 288 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P131397},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P131397},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“SAT 1, 288 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P131397.

SAT 1, 288 artifact entry (No. P131397). (2024, July 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P131397 (Original work published 2001)

SAT 1, 288 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P131397 (Accessed: December 24, 2025).

@misc{2024SAT,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-24]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 4},
	title = {SAT 1, 288 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P131397},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P131397},
}

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PY  - 2024
ID  - P131397
LB  - CDLI:P131397
M1  - 2025/12/24/
TI  - SAT 1, 288 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P131397
ER  -