UDT 029 (P136158)

Administrative tablet & envelope excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Museum Number

NBC 00029

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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Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. 2(gesz2) sze sumun gur lugal
2. gur lu2 ma-ri2{ki}-ta
3. i3-dub e2-gibil4-le
4. ki ba-zi-ta
5. kiszib3 ur-{d}ba-ba6
6. dumu na-silim
  erased: li
reverse
1. iti mu-szu-du7
  blank space
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2. mu ki-masz{ki} ba-hul
seal 1
1. ur-{d}ba-ba6
2. dumu na-silim
3. lu2 lunga

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 & envelope Artifact type comments:

    unopened envelope

  • Material: Clay
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  • Artifact comments:

    unopened envelope

  • primary: UDT, 029

    [Nies1920UDT] Nies, James B. 1920. Ur Dynasty Tablets : Texts Chiefly from Tello and Drehem Written during the Reigns of Dungi, Bur-Sin, Gimil-Sin, and Ibi-Sin. Series Assyriologische Bibliothek 25. Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs.

  • history: ENES, 0570x (seal)

    [Buchanan1981ENES] Buchanan, Briggs. 1981. Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection. Yale University Press.

  • citation: CBCY 3, p. 006, NBC 00029

    [Sigrist2001CBCY3] Sigrist, Marcel. 2001. Neo-Sumerian Archival Texts in the Nies Babylonian Collection. Catalogue of the Babylonian Collections at Yale 3. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: NBC 00029
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  • Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
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
2014-12-08 at 08:12:18 Englund, Robert K. Atf Ozaki Tohru CDLI approved View
2011-07-22 at 14:13:19 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2009-06-03 at 11:01:10 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:28:53 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

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

Seal Provenience Period Date
CDLI Seals 004818 (composite) (P457528) Girsu (mod. Tello) Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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Cite this Artifact
“UDT 029 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 1, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P136158.
UDT 029 artifact entry (No. P136158). (2023, February 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P136158 (Original work published 2001)
UDT 029 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P136158 (Accessed: May 1, 2025).
@misc{2023UDT,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-01]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {feb 1},
	title = {UDT 029 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P136158},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P136158},
}


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