BM 085776 (P356066)

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 085776

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. udu tag-tag
 en: sheep, weaving,
3. e2-tum-e
 en: to the ‘chambers,’
reverse
1. i3-gal2
 en: are here.
  blank space
2. mu {d}i-bi2-{d}suen lugal bad3-gal-bi mu-du3
 en: year: “Ibbi-Suen, the king, wall grandly erected.”

Textual annotations

#new_text=P356066 # ID FORM LEMMA UPOSTAG XPOSTAG FEATS HEAD DEPREL DEPS MISC 1 pisan-dub-ba bisagdubak[filing_basket] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 2 udu udu[sheep] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 3 tag-tag tag[touch] VERB V _ _ _ _ _ 4 e2-tum-e bitum[administrative_term] NOUN N Number=Sing|Animacy=Nhum _ _ _ _ 5 i3-gal2 ni] VERB V Verb Form=Fin|Person=3|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 6 mu mu[year] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 7 {d}i-bi2-{d}suen Ibbisuen[1] PROPN RN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 8 lugal lugal[king] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Erg _ _ _ _ 9 bad3-gal-bi badgal[great_wall] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Abs _ _ _ _ 10 mu-du3 n] VERB V 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/P356066

Physical information

Artifact type Tag
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 085776
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource Identifiers
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS) 078856
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) BM.85776
British Museum Collection (BM) W_1899-0415-583

Revisions and credits

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
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
2017-07-02 at 13:42:56 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Firth, Richard CDLI Approved View
2016-12-15 at 17:01:47 Englund, Robert K. Transliteration Englund, Robert K. CDLI Approved View
2015-05-06 at 08:17:01 CDLI Transliteration CDLI CDLI Approved View
2014-08-19 at 19:41:35 Heinle, Michael Transliteration Heinle, Michael CDLI Approved View
2007-01-25 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact metadata CDLI CDLI Approved View

Cite this Artifact

“BM 085776 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P356066.
BM 085776 artifact entry (No. P356066). (2023, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P356066 (Original work published 2007)
BM 085776 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P356066 (Accessed: May 18, 2026).
@misc{2023BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-05-18]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {oct 28},
	title = {BM 085776 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P356066},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P356066},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/10/28/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P356066
LB  - CDLI:P356066
M1  - 2026/5/18/
TI  - BM 085776 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P356066
ER  -

Cite this Artifact

“BM 085776 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P356066.
BM 085776 artifact entry (No. P356066). (2023, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P356066 (Original work published 2007)
BM 085776 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P356066 (Accessed: May 18, 2026).
@misc{2023BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-05-18]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {oct 28},
	title = {BM 085776 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P356066},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P356066},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/10/28/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P356066
LB  - CDLI:P356066
M1  - 2026/5/18/
TI  - BM 085776 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P356066
ER  -
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