JavaScript is disabled or not supported in your browser. If possible, enable it for a better experience.

BPOA 02, 2617 (P208613)

Administrative tablet excavated in Umma (mod. Tell Jokha), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

Metadata / catalogue

Flat catalogue

As CSV As TSV

Expanded catalogue

As JSON

Linked catalogue

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Text / annotations

Text data

As ATF As JTF

Linked annotations

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Related publications

As CSV As BibTeX

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

As CSV

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 105499

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Has seal impression(s)

Text

tablet
obverse
1. 2(barig) sze ur5-ra
2. ki dingir-ra-ta
3. lu2-{d}nagar-pa-e3 tug2-du8
4. szu ba-ti
reverse
blank space
seal impression
1. iti {d}li9-si4
2. mu sza-asz-ru{ki} ba-hul
seal 1
1. lu2-{d}nagar-pa-e3
2. dumu ka-sa6-[ga]
3. [...]

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:
Artifact comments:

Text Information

Genre(s): Administrative
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: BPOA 2, 2617

[Ozaki2006BPOA2] Ozaki, Tohru, and Marcel Sigrist. 2006. Ur III Administrative Tablets from the British Museum. Part Two. Biblioteca Del Próximo Oriente Antiguo 2. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 105499
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)
Elevation:
Stratigraphic Level:
Excavation No:
Findspot Square:
Findspot Comments:

Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Amar-Suen.06.09.00
Alternative Years:
Date Comments:
Accounting Period:

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-08-19 at 13:32:21	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	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
2019-11-11 at 10:55:50	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2011-07-22 at 14:36:17	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2009-06-03 at 11:30:44	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2008-01-03 at 20:38:57	Dahl, Jacob L.	Transliteration	Dahl, Jacob L.		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 (057567) (057567)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.105499) (BM.105499)
British Museum Collection (W_1913-0416-331) (W_1913-0416-331)

Seals

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

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 003131 (composite) (P455841)	Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Notes

General Notes: -

CDLI Notes: -

Cite this Artifacts

“BPOA 02, 2617 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P208613.

BPOA 02, 2617 artifact entry (No. P208613). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P208613 (Original work published 2002)

BPOA 02, 2617 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P208613 (Accessed: March 5, 2026).

@misc{2023BPOA,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-05]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {BPOA 02, 2617 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P208613},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P208613},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P208613
LB  - CDLI:P208613
M1  - 2026/3/5/
TI  - BPOA 02, 2617 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P208613
ER  -

Cite this Artifacts

“BPOA 02, 2617 Artifact Entry.” (2002) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P208613.

BPOA 02, 2617 artifact entry (No. P208613). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P208613 (Original work published 2002)

BPOA 02, 2617 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P208613 (Accessed: March 5, 2026).

@misc{2023BPOA,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-05]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {BPOA 02, 2617 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P208613},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P208613},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P208613
LB  - CDLI:P208613
M1  - 2026/3/5/
TI  - BPOA 02, 2617 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P208613
ER  -