TCS 1, 125 (P145676)

Letter tablet & envelope excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), 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 06645

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Letter

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. lu2-sa6-ga-ra
2. u3-na-a-du11
3. a-na-asz2-am3
4. puzur4-ha-li2
5. mu sze kur-ra-sze3
reverse
1. sze esztub he2-na-szum2
2. lu2-ni a2 ba-an-zi
3. en-na am3-DU
4. igi-mu-sze3 inim-bi a-bala-e
5. na-ba-an-du3
envelope
  (blank except for seal)
seal 1
column 1
1. {d}i-bi2-{d}suen
2. lugal kal-ga
3. lugal uri5{ki}-ma
4. lugal an-ub-da limmu2-ba
column 2
1. ur-{d}szu-mah
2. dub-sar
3. dumu ur-nigar{gar}
4. ARAD2-zu

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
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: TCS 1, 125

    [Sollberger1966TCS1] Sollberger, Edmond. 1966. The Business and Administrative Correspondence under the Kings of Ur. Texts from Cuneiform Sources 1. Locust Valley, New York: J.J. Augustin.

  • history: ENES, 0649 (seal)

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

  • history: Michalowski Letters, 176

    [Michalowski1993Letters] Michalowski, Piotr. 1993. Letters from Early Mesopotamia. Vol. 3. Writings from the Ancient World.

  • citation: CBCY 3, p. 209, NBC 06645

    [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.

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  • Museum No.: NBC 06645
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-04 at 08:40:46 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-07-04 at 08:37:10 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-07-04 at 08:33:03 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-08-21 at 17:47:41 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Atf Lafont, Bertrand Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2023-01-19 at 10:02:26 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2018-10-19 at 18:19:42 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Atf Pagé-Perron, Émilie CDLI approved View
2018-08-23 at 08:56:43 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2018-06-22 at 05:59:27 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Atf Pagé-Perron, Émilie CDLI approved View
2016-10-30 at 07:44:39 Firth, Richard Atf Firth, Richard CDLI approved View
2016-07-28 at 16:12:03 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2011-07-22 at 14:30:27 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:32:15 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 000524 (composite) (P430620) Puzriš-Dagan (mod. Drehem) Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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Cite this Artifact
“TCS 1, 125 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 4, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P145676.
TCS 1, 125 artifact entry (No. P145676). (2024, July 4). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P145676 (Original work published 2001)
TCS 1, 125 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P145676 (Accessed: May 3, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-03]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 4},
	title = {TCS 1, 125 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P145676},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P145676},
}


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