SAT 1, 437 (P131540)

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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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 020122

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

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tablet
obverse
1. zah3 1(asz) 4(barig) gur szesz-kal-la
2. zah3 2(asz) gur lugal-u2-szim-e
3. 1(asz) 4(barig) gur {d}utu-ba-e3 sag iri-ni-kisz{ki}-sze3
4. 1(asz) gur du11-ga-zi-da sag lu2-{d}na-ru2-a-sze3
5. 1(asz) 4(barig) 4(ban2) gur lu2-{d}suen
6. 1(asz) gur ur-bara2-si-ga sag lu2-{d}igi-ma-sze3
7. 1(asz) 4(barig) gur ur-{d}a-zi-mu2-a sag sirara6-sze3
8. 1(u) 1(asz) 1(barig) 4(ban2) gur ugula ur-{d}lamma dumu nam-mah
9. 8(asz) gur lugal-su6-NE
10. 9(asz) gur {d}nin-mar{ki}
11. 8(asz) 3(ban2) gur lugal-uszur4
12. 2(u) 5(asz) gur
13. ugula ur-{d}szusz3-{d}ba-ba6
14. sza3 sze-numun-ta sze szuku-ra
15. engar-gi7 szu ba-ti

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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
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  • primary: SAT 1, 437

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

    Barley for seeding


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  • Museum No.: BM 020122
  • Accession No.: 1895-10-17, 0162

  • Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-04 at 10:57:37 Firth, Richard Artifact metadata, Other metadata Firth, Richard Firth, Richard Approved View
2023-08-19 at 13:32:21 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact metadata Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune Approved View
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 View
2011-07-22 at 14:04:38 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:35:15 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:27:09 CDLI Transliteration CDLI CDLI Approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact metadata CDLI CDLI Approved View

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Cite this Artifacts

“SAT 1, 437 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P131540.
SAT 1, 437 artifact entry (No. P131540). (2024, July 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P131540 (Original work published 2001)
SAT 1, 437 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P131540 (Accessed: February 27, 2026).
@misc{2024SAT,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-27]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 4},
	title = {SAT 1, 437 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P131540},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P131540},
}

TY  - ELEC
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PY  - 2024
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TI  - SAT 1, 437 artifact entry
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Cite this Artifacts

“SAT 1, 437 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P131540.
SAT 1, 437 artifact entry (No. P131540). (2024, July 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P131540 (Original work published 2001)
SAT 1, 437 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P131540 (Accessed: February 27, 2026).
@misc{2024SAT,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-27]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 4},
	title = {SAT 1, 437 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P131540},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P131540},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/4/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P131540
LB  - CDLI:P131540
M1  - 2026/2/27/
TI  - SAT 1, 437 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P131540
ER  - 
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