YBC 12363 (P312306)

Administrative tablet excavated in Umma (mod. Tell Jokha), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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

Related publications

As CSV As BibTeX

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

As CSV
Metadata history

Museum Collection(s)

Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Museum Number

YBC 12363

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (messenger text)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

28.0 mm × 24.0 mm × 12.0 mm

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
  • Measurements (mm): 28.0 high × 24.0 wide × 12.0 thick
  • Weight:
  • Artifact Preservation:
  • Condition Description:
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.:
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

  • history: Yale Messenger, 219

    [McNeil1970YaleMessenger] McNeil, Robert Clayton. 1970. “The ‘Messenger Texts’ of the Third Ur Dynasty.” Phdthesis, University of Pennsylvania.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: YBC 12363
  • Accession No.:

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

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-07 at 13:59:26 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-07-07 at 13:53:01 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-01-21 at 07:05:30 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2006-02-08 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Englund, Robert K.; Guerra, Dylan; Middeke-Conlin, Robert; Pace, Carl Yale Babylonian Collection CDLI approved View

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

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes: -
Cite this Artifact
“YBC 12363 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 7, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P312306.
YBC 12363 artifact entry (No. P312306). (2024, July 7). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P312306 (Original work published 2006)
YBC 12363 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P312306 (Accessed: June 8, 2025).
@misc{2024YBC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-06-08]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 7},
	title = {YBC 12363 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P312306},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P312306},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/7/7/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P312306
LB  - CDLI:P312306
M1  - 2025/6/8/
TI  - YBC 12363 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P312306
ER  -
This website uses essential cookies that are necessary for it to work properly. These cookies are enabled by default.