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BPOA 02, 1943 (P340596)

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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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 109462

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 2(disz) gin2 igi-6(disz)-gal2 ku3-babbar
2. bala-sze3
3. ki ur-e2-[...-ta]
4. kiszib3 lu2-{d}[utu]
reverse
1. mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal ma-da za-ab-sza-li{ki} ba-hul
seal 1
1. lu2-{d}utu
2. dub-sar
3. dumu ba-zi

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)

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British Museum, London, UK

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Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
Measurements (mm):
Weight:
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Condition Description:
Join Information:
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Artifact comments:

Text Information

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

Related publications

primary: BPOA 2, 1943

[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.
citation: Fs Foster (pp. 185-202), 190

[Garfinkle2010FsFoster] Garfinkle, Steven J. 2010. “Merchants and State Formation in Early Mesopotamia.” In Opening the Tablet Box : Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. Foster, 42:185–202. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Leiden : Brill.

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Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 109462
Accession No.:

Provenience

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

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.07.00.00
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-09-23 at 14:24:15	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2024-09-23 at 14:17:43	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2023-08-19 at 13:32:21	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-01-21 at 07:42:50	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
2018-03-23 at 18:53:25	CDLI	Atf	CDLI		CDLI	approved
2011-07-22 at 15:00:52	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2009-06-03 at 11:59:19	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2008-01-27 at 19:44:23	Dahl, Jacob L.	Atf	Dahl, Jacob L.		CDLI	approved
2008-01-03 at 20:56:13	Dahl, Jacob L.	Atf	Dahl, Jacob L.		CDLI	approved
2006-10-05 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Englund, Robert K.; Molina, Manuel		CDLI	approved

External Resources

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

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (068717) (068717)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.109462) (BM.109462)
The British Museum Collection (W_1914-0406-365) (W_1914-0406-365)

Seals

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

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 003311 (composite) (P456021)	Girsu (mod. Tello)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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“BPOA 02, 1943 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P340596.

BPOA 02, 1943 artifact entry (No. P340596). (2024, September 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P340596 (Original work published 2006)

BPOA 02, 1943 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P340596 (Accessed: July 2, 2025).

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	year = {2024},
	month = {sep 23},
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P340596},
}

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“BPOA 02, 1943 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 23, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P340596.

BPOA 02, 1943 artifact entry (No. P340596). (2024, September 23). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P340596 (Original work published 2006)

BPOA 02, 1943 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P340596 (Accessed: July 2, 2025).

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	year = {2024},
	month = {sep 23},
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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P340596},
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