PPAC 5, 0618 (P203888)

Administrative tablet excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), 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 026980

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (Account of the working cattle in the é-dNin-mar-ki-ka ugula Lú-dNa-rú-a)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text

tablet
obverse
1. 2(asz@c) ab2 mah2
2. 3(asz@c) gu4 gesz
3. 1(asz@c) ab2 2(disz) gesz-sze3
4. 1(asz@c) ab2
5. 1(asz@c) ab2 amar ga
6. 1(asz@c) gu4 amar ga
7. gub-ba-am3
8. la2-ia3 1(disz) gu4 gesz
9. ma2-gur8-re engar
10. 1(asz@c) ab2 mah2 sag gu4 gesz-sze3
11. 4(asz@c) gu4 gesz
12. 1(asz@c) nu ansze sag gu4 gesz-sze3
13. gub-ba-am3
14. gu4 ur-sa6-ga
15. lu2-{d}nin-szubur i3-dab5
16. 3(asz@c) ab2 mah2
17. 1(asz@c) ab2 2(disz) gesz-sze3 sag ab2 mah2-sze3
reverse
1. 2(asz@c) gu4 gesz
2. 1(asz@c) gu4 2(disz) gesz-sze3
3. 1(asz@c) gu4 amar ga
blank space
4. gub-ba-am3
5. 1(asz@c) ab2 mah2 su-su
6. 1(asz@c) gu4 gesz-am3 im dagal
7. zi-ga
8. la2-ia3 1(disz) gu4 2(disz)
9. 1(disz) gu4
10. la2-ia3-am3
11. ur-{d}isztaran dumu lu2-kal-la
12. 3(asz@c) ansze
13. 1(asz@c) dur3
14. 2(asz@c) dur3 sag ansze-sze3
15. 1(asz@c) ansze 2(disz) gesz-sze3
16. 1(asz@c) ($ blank space $)
17. 1(asz@c) dur3 amar ga
18. 1(asz@c) nu ansze a2-dar
19. 1(asz@c) nu ansze su-su
20. gub-ba-am3
21. la2-ia3 1(disz) ansze
22. 1(disz) ansze 2(disz)
23. 2(disz) la2-ia3-am3
left
column 1
1. lugal-ezem engar
2. 4(asz@c) gu4 apin
column 2
1. ugula lu2-{d}na-ru2-a
2. e2 {d}nin-mar{ki}-ka
3. mu us2-sa ki-masz{ki} mu us2-sa-bi

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
Measurements (mm):
Weight:
Artifact Preservation:
Condition Description:
Join Information:
Seal no.:
Seal information:
unsealed
Artifact comments:

Text Information

Genre(s): Administrative (Account of the working cattle in the é-dNin-mar-ki-ka ugula Lú-dNa-rú-a)
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: PPAC 5, 618

[Sigrist2013PPAC5] Sigrist, Marcel, and Tohru Ozaki. 2013. Administrative Ur III Texts in the British Museum (AUTBM). Part I-II. Periodic Publications on Ancient Civilizations (PPAC) 5. Changchun, China: Northeast Normal University. The Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 026980
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
Elevation:
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Excavation No:
Findspot Square:
Findspot Comments:

Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Šulgi.48.00.00 (us2-us2 year)
Alternative Years:
Date Comments:
Accounting Period:

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-10-25 at 08:39:35	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2023-10-28 at 21:03:16	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune; Taylor, Jonathan	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
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
2014-02-01 at 17:58:50	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2002-07-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Alivernini, Sergio; Alster, Bendt; Englund, Robert K.; Molina, Manuel; Reid, Nicholas		CDLI	approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (054717) (054717)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.26980) (BM.26980)
The British Museum Collection (W_1898-0611-32) (W_1898-0611-32)

Notes

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Cite this Artifact

“PPAC 5, 0618 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P203888.

PPAC 5, 0618 artifact entry (No. P203888). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P203888 (Original work published 2002)

PPAC 5, 0618 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P203888 (Accessed: January 1, 2026).

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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P203888},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P203888},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“PPAC 5, 0618 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P203888.

PPAC 5, 0618 artifact entry (No. P203888). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P203888 (Original work published 2002)

PPAC 5, 0618 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P203888 (Accessed: January 1, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-01]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 0618 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P203888},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P203888},
}

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