BM 022965 (P320176)

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

Cite

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 022965

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (Account(?); badly disintegrated (CBT 2))

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Administrative (Account(?); badly disintegrated (CBT 2))
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P320176
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P320176

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience	Girsu (mod. Tello)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	British Museum, London, UK
Museum Number	BM 022965
Accession Number	1897-05-12, 0001

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS)	042999
British Museum Collection (BM)	W_1897-0512-1

References

history: CBT 2, BM 022965 (catalogue)

[CBT21996] Sigrist, Marcel, Hugo Heinrich Figulla, and Christopher B. F. Walker. 1996. Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum. Vol. 2. British Museum Press.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status	Action
2026-03-08 at 08:53:02	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Pagé-Perron, Émilie; Rattenborg, Rune		Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2006-04-04 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Alivernini, Sergio; Molina, Manuel		CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“BM 022965 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2026. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). March 8, 2026. https://cdli.earth/P320176.

BM 022965 artifact entry (No. P320176). (2026, March 8). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P320176 (Original work published 2006)

BM 022965 artifact entry (2026) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P320176 (Accessed: October 23, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“BM 022965 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2026. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). March 8, 2026. https://cdli.earth/P320176.

BM 022965 artifact entry (No. P320176). (2026, March 8). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P320176 (Original work published 2006)

BM 022965 artifact entry (2026) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P320176 (Accessed: October 23, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P320176},
}

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