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UET 3, 0791 (P137115)

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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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 130291

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

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 3(u) 5(disz) gu-nigin2 pa {gesz}geszimmar
2. {d}utu-mu
3. mu-kux(DU)
seal 1
1. ba-ga-a
2. dub-sar
3. dumu ur-zabala4{ki}

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, 791

[Legrain1937UET3] Legrain, Léon. 1937. Business Documents of the Third Dynasty of Ur. Ur Excavations. Texts 3. London: The Trustees of the two museums.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 130291
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Elevation:
Stratigraphic Level:
Excavation No: U 07810v
Findspot Square:
Findspot Comments:

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
2023-08-19 at 13:32:21	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
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
2013-07-29 at 12:28:04	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2013-06-07 at 12:25:43	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2011-07-22 at 14:14:57	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2006-10-12 at 12:29:19	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 (011096) (011096)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.130291) (BM.130291)
The British Museum Collection (W_1948-0423-191) (W_1948-0423-191)

Seals

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

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 002003 (composite) (P454713)	Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Notes

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Cite this Artifact

“UET 3, 0791 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P137115.

UET 3, 0791 artifact entry (No. P137115). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P137115 (Original work published 2001)

UET 3, 0791 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P137115 (Accessed: January 22, 2026).

@misc{2023UET,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-22]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {UET 3, 0791 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P137115},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P137115},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P137115
LB  - CDLI:P137115
M1  - 2026/1/22/
TI  - UET 3, 0791 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P137115
ER  -

Cite this Artifact

“UET 3, 0791 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P137115.

UET 3, 0791 artifact entry (No. P137115). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P137115 (Original work published 2001)

UET 3, 0791 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P137115 (Accessed: January 22, 2026).

@misc{2023UET,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-22]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {UET 3, 0791 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P137115},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P137115},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P137115
LB  - CDLI:P137115
M1  - 2026/1/22/
TI  - UET 3, 0791 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P137115
ER  -