BM 085722 (P356065)

Administrative tag excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 085722

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tag

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (pisan-dub-ba)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Text

tablet
obverse
1. pisan-dub-ba
 en: Basket-of-tablets:
2. nig2-ka9-ak
 en: accounts of
3. sipa gukkal-na-ke4
 en: herders of fat-tailed sheep
4. i3-gal2
 en: are here;
5. sza3 ma-da gir2-su{ki}
 en: in the lands of Girsu,
6. ugula a-a-kal-la szusz3
 en: foreman: Ayakalla, the cattle manager;
7. mu si-mu-ru-um{ki} ba-hul
 en: year: “Simurum was destroyed.”

Textual annotations

#new_text=P356065 # ID FORM SEGM XPOSTAG HEAD DEPREL MISC # ID FORM LEMMA UPOSTAG XPOSTAG FEATS HEAD DEPREL DEPS MISC 1 pisan-dub-ba bisagdubak[filing_basket] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 2 nig2-ka9-ak nigSZID[account] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 3 sipa sipa[shepherd] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 4 gukkal-na-ke4 tailed_sheep] NOUN N Number=Plur|Case=Gen,Abs|Animacy=Hum _ _ _ _ 5 i3-gal2 ni] VERB V Verb Form=Fin|Person=3|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 6 sza3 szag[heart] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 7 ma-da mada[land] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 8 gir2-su{ki} Girsu[1] PROPN SN Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Gen _ _ _ _ 9 ugula ugula[overseer] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Abs _ _ _ _ 10 a-a-kal-la Ayakala[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 11 szusz3 kusz[cattle_manager] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Abs _ _ _ _ 12 mu mu[year] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 13 si-mu-ru-um{ki} Simurrum[1] PROPN SN Number=Sing|Case=Abs _ _ _ _ 14 ba-hul hulu[destroy] VERB V Voice=Mid|Person=3|Number=Sing _ _ _ _

Text content

Genre(s) Administrative (pisan-dub-ba)
Language(s) Sumerian

Chronology

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

Record

LOD URI https://cdli.network/entity/P356065

Physical information

Artifact type Tag
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s) Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience Girsu (mod. Tello)
Purchased from I Élias Géjou in 1899.
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s) British Museum, London, UK
Museum Number BM 085722
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource Identifiers
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS) 078817
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) BM.85722
British Museum Collection (BM) W_1899-0415-529

Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2026-07-18 at 14:00:18 Cross, Aidan Artifact metadata Cross, Aidan Pagé-Perron, Émilie Approved View
2023-10-28 at 21:03:16 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact metadata Rattenborg, Rune; Taylor, Jonathan Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune Approved View
2023-01-21 at 07:42:50 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact metadata Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie Approved View
2022-12-04 at 11:30:39 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Annotation McGrath, William; Wang Jinyan Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages Pagé-Perron, Émilie Approved View
2016-12-15 at 17:01:47 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2015-05-06 at 08:17:01 CDLI, CDLI Transliteration CDLI, CDLI CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2015-03-13 at 12:42:07 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2014-09-03 at 10:18:57 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2014-08-19 at 19:41:36 Heinle, Michael Transliteration Heinle, Michael CDLI, CDLI Approved View
2007-01-25 at 00:00:00 CDLI, CDLI Artifact metadata CDLI, CDLI CDLI, CDLI Approved View

Cite this Artifact

“BM 085722 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2026. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 20, 2026. https://cdli.earth/P356065.
BM 085722 artifact entry (No. P356065). (2026, July 20). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P356065 (Original work published 2007)
BM 085722 artifact entry (2026) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P356065 (Accessed: October 16, 2026).
@misc{2026BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-16]},
	year = {2026},
	month = {jul 20},
	title = {BM 085722 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P356065},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P356065},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2026/7/20/
PY  - 2026
ID  - P356065
LB  - CDLI:P356065
M1  - 2026/10/16/
TI  - BM 085722 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P356065
ER  -

Cite this Artifact

“BM 085722 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2026. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 20, 2026. https://cdli.earth/P356065.
BM 085722 artifact entry (No. P356065). (2026, July 20). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P356065 (Original work published 2007)
BM 085722 artifact entry (2026) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P356065 (Accessed: October 16, 2026).
@misc{2026BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-16]},
	year = {2026},
	month = {jul 20},
	title = {BM 085722 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P356065},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P356065},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2026/7/20/
PY  - 2026
ID  - P356065
LB  - CDLI:P356065
M1  - 2026/10/16/
TI  - BM 085722 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P356065
ER  -
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