Literary letter and letter-prayer tablet excavated in Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK
Museum Collection(s)
British Museum, London, UKMuseum Number
BM —Provenience
Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)Artifact Type
TabletMaterial(s)
ClayGenre / Subgenre(s)
Literary > Literary letter and letter-prayer (ETCSL 3.01.19 Letter from Puzur-numushda to Ibbi-Sin (witness) Letter)Language(s)
SumerianMeasurements
-Witness
| Genre(s) | Literary > Literary letter and letter-prayer (ETCSL 3.01.19 Letter from Puzur-numushda to Ibbi-Sin (witness) Letter) |
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| Language(s) | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) |
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| Dates Referenced | |
| Accounting Period |
This artifact is a witness to the following composite(s):
| Composite | Composite Number | Score |
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| CDLI Literary 000559 (Letter from Puzur-numushda to Ibbi-Sin) composite (P473757) | Q000559 | View the score |
| CDLI number | P346595 |
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| LOD URI | https://cdli.network/entity/P346595 |
| Provenience | Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) |
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| Excavation Number | U — |
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| Collection(s) |
British Museum, London, UK |
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| Museum Number | BM — |
| Accession Number |
| External Resource | Identifiers |
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| The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature transliterations (ETCSL transliterations) | 3.1.19 |
| The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature translations (ETCSL translations) | 3.1.19 |
| Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP) | P346595 |
history: UET 6, 0558
history: CKU, 23
| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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| 2024-07-08 at 08:00:06 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2024-07-08 at 07:53:26 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2023-06-15 at 20:34:30 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact metadata | Rattenborg, Rune | Geomapping Landscapes of Writing | Rattenborg, Rune | Approved |
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| 2019-06-01 at 14:34:08 | Englund, Robert K. | Transliteration | Englund, Robert K. | CDLI | Approved |
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| 2019-05-29 at 21:01:58 | Englund, Robert K. | Transliteration | Englund, Robert K. | CDLI | Approved |
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| 2006-11-02 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact metadata | Foxvog, Daniel A.; Guerra, Dylan; Peterson, Jeremiah; Veldhuis, Niek; Wolfe, Jared N. | CDLI | Approved |
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@misc{2024CDLI,
note = {[Online; accessed 2026-05-18]},
year = {2024},
month = {jul 8},
title = {CDLI {Literary} 000559, ex. 008 artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P346595},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P346595},
}
TY - ELEC DA - 2024/7/8/ PY - 2024 ID - P346595 LB - CDLI:P346595 M1 - 2026/5/18/ TI - CDLI Literary 000559, ex. 008 artifact entry UR - https://cdli.earth/P346595 ER -