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UET 3, 1163 (P137488)

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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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 130379

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. 1(barig) i3-gesz#
2. lugal-ma2-gur8-re kuruszda
3. ki guru7-ta
4. szu-esz18-dar
5. szu ba-ti
6. iti diri ezem-{d}me-ki-gal2-ke4 us2-sa
7. mu x x x
seal 1
1. szu-esz18-dar
2. dub-sar
3. dumu ur-nigar{gar}
hand copy has ur-nigar

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, 1163

[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 130379
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Elevation:
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Excavation No: U 04402
Findspot Square:
Findspot Comments:

Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Ibbi-Suen.08.12d.00 (intercalated)
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-08-19 at 13:39:11	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	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
2017-04-17 at 17:36:49	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Ozaki Tohru		CDLI	Approved
2013-06-07 at 12:25:43	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2011-07-22 at 14:15:36	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2006-10-12 at 12:29:29	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 (011468) (011468)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.130379) (BM.130379)
British Museum Collection (W_1948-0423-279) (W_1948-0423-279)

Seals

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

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 004177 (composite) (P456887)	Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Notes

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Cite this Artifacts

“UET 3, 1163 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P137488.

UET 3, 1163 artifact entry (No. P137488). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P137488 (Original work published 2001)

UET 3, 1163 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P137488 (Accessed: February 16, 2026).

@misc{2023UET,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-16]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {UET 3, 1163 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P137488},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P137488},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P137488
LB  - CDLI:P137488
M1  - 2026/2/16/
TI  - UET 3, 1163 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P137488
ER  -

Cite this Artifacts

“UET 3, 1163 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P137488.

UET 3, 1163 artifact entry (No. P137488). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P137488 (Original work published 2001)

UET 3, 1163 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P137488 (Accessed: February 16, 2026).

@misc{2023UET,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-16]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {UET 3, 1163 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P137488},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P137488},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P137488
LB  - CDLI:P137488
M1  - 2026/2/16/
TI  - UET 3, 1163 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P137488
ER  -