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UET 3, 0742 (P137066)

Administrative tablet excavated in Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar), 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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Lineart

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 130279

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text

tablet
obverse
1. 1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar
2. ku3 ur5-ra masz2 ga2-ga2-dam
3. masz2 mu 1(disz)-a-bi 2(disz) gin2-am3
4. ki ur-{d}dumu-zi-da-ta
reverse
broken

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: UET 3, 742

[Legrain1937UET3] Legrain, Léon. 1937. Business Documents of the Third Dynasty of Ur. Ur Excavations. Texts 3. London: The Trustees of the two museums.
history: BPOA 05 (pp. 207-224), 220 1a

[Widell2008BPOA5] Widell, Magnus. 2008. “The Ur III Metal Loans from Ur.” In The Growth of an Early State in Mesopotamia: Studies in Ur III Administration, 207–24.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 130279
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Elevation:
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Excavation No: U 04553
Findspot Square:
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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
2024-07-21 at 14:34:31	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-09-15 at 08:16:51	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Taylor, Jonathan	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	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 14:14:49	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2006-10-12 at 12:29:18	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 (011047) (011047)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.130279) (BM.130279)
British Museum Collection (W_1948-0423-179) (W_1948-0423-179)

Notes

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Cite this Artifacts

“UET 3, 0742 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 21, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P137066.

UET 3, 0742 artifact entry (No. P137066). (2024, July 21). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P137066 (Original work published 2001)

UET 3, 0742 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P137066 (Accessed: March 17, 2026).

@misc{2024UET,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-17]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 21},
	title = {UET 3, 0742 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P137066},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P137066},
}

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DA  - 2024/7/21/
PY  - 2024
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LB  - CDLI:P137066
M1  - 2026/3/17/
TI  - UET 3, 0742 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P137066
ER  -

Cite this Artifacts

“UET 3, 0742 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 21, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P137066.

UET 3, 0742 artifact entry (No. P137066). (2024, July 21). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P137066 (Original work published 2001)

UET 3, 0742 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P137066 (Accessed: March 17, 2026).

@misc{2024UET,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-17]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 21},
	title = {UET 3, 0742 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P137066},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P137066},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/21/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P137066
LB  - CDLI:P137066
M1  - 2026/3/17/
TI  - UET 3, 0742 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P137066
ER  -