Orient 55, 153 12 (P273922)

Administrative tablet excavated in Umma (mod. Tell Jokha), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

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Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Museum Number

Dartmouth 23-1-7178

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

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tablet
obverse
1. 1(u) 4(asz) sze gur
2. la2-ia3 su-ga
3. ki {d}en-lil2-la2-ta
4. lu2-dingir-ra szabra
reverse
1. szu ba-ti
2. mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal uri5{ki}-ma-ke4 ma-da za-ab-sza-li{ki} mu-hul

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: Orient 55, p.117-154, p. 153 12

    [Widell2020Hood] Widell, Magnus. 2020. “Ur III Economy and Bureaucracy. The Neo-Sumerian Cuneiform Tablets in the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College (I).” Orient, Report of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan 55: 117–54.

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  • Museum No.: Dartmouth 23-1-7178
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  • Provenience: Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)
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  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.07.00.00
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2020-06-19 at 09:26:45 Firth, Richard Atf Firth, Richard CDLI approved View
2005-08-10 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Guerra, Dylan CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“Orient 55, 153 12 Artifact Entry.” 2005. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 10, 2005. https://cdli.earth/P273922.
Orient 55, 153 12 artifact entry (No. P273922). (2005, August 10). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P273922
Orient 55, 153 12 artifact entry (2005) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P273922 (Accessed: July 17, 2025).
@misc{2005Orient,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-07-17]},
	year = {2005},
	month = {aug 10},
	title = {Orient 55, 153 12 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P273922},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P273922},
}


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