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PPAC 5, 0638 (P207135)

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 027009

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (Status of the herd of small cattle of Igi-ni-da-a shà Gú-ab-baki)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text

tablet
obverse
1. 1(u) 8(disz) u8
2. 2(disz) udu-nita2
3. 2(disz) {munus}asz2-gar3
4. 4(disz) sila4-nita2
5. 2(disz) masz2-sag
6. mu-kux(DU)
7. ($ blank space $) u8 ($ blank space $) udu-nita2
8. zi-ga
9. 1(disz) u8 1(disz) sila4
reverse
1. ($ blank space $) sila4
2. ri-ri-ga
3. la2-ia3 1(disz) u8 2(disz) sila4
4. szunigin 3(u) la2 2(disz) gub-ba
5. szunigin ($ blank space $) zi-ga
6. szunigin 2(disz) ri-ri-ga
7. szunigin 3(disz) la2-ia3
8. szi-ni-ta2-a
9. ugula du11-ga-zi-da
10. sza3 gu2-ab-ba{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
Measurements (mm):
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Artifact Preservation:
Condition Description:
Join Information:
Seal no.:
Seal information:
unsealed
Artifact comments:

Text Information

Genre(s): Administrative (Status of the herd of small cattle of Igi-ni-da-a shà Gú-ab-baki)
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: PPAC 5, 638

[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 027009
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
Elevation:
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Findspot Square:
Findspot Comments:

Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: 00.00.00.00
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-10-25 at 08:39:35	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-10-28 at 21:03:16	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Taylor, Jonathan	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-19 at 10:02:26	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2017-03-03 at 09:54:59	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	CDLI		CDLI	Approved
2014-02-01 at 17:58:50	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2002-07-11 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	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 (054745) (054745)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.27009) (BM.27009)
British Museum Collection (W_1898-0611-61) (W_1898-0611-61)

Notes

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Cite this Artifacts

“PPAC 5, 0638 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P207135.

PPAC 5, 0638 artifact entry (No. P207135). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P207135 (Original work published 2002)

PPAC 5, 0638 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P207135 (Accessed: March 16, 2026).

@misc{2024PPAC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-16]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 0638 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P207135},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P207135},
}

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DA  - 2024/10/25/
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ID  - P207135
LB  - CDLI:P207135
M1  - 2026/3/16/
TI  - PPAC 5, 0638 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P207135
ER  -

Cite this Artifacts

“PPAC 5, 0638 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P207135.

PPAC 5, 0638 artifact entry (No. P207135). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P207135 (Original work published 2002)

PPAC 5, 0638 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P207135 (Accessed: March 16, 2026).

@misc{2024PPAC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-16]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 0638 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P207135},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P207135},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/10/25/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P207135
LB  - CDLI:P207135
M1  - 2026/3/16/
TI  - PPAC 5, 0638 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P207135
ER  -