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PPAC 5, 0998 (P378669)

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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Chemical Data

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 087426

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text

tablet
obverse
1. 1(u) 3(asz) 4(ban2) 5(disz) sila3 sze gur lugal
2. sze numun a-sza3 ambar sur-ra-sze3
3. ki lu2-{d}na-ru2-a dumu banda3{da}-ta
reverse
1. lugal-siskur2-re
2. szu ba-ti
3. iti ezem-{d}szul-gi u3
4. iti ezem-{d}ba-ba6
5. mu si-mu-ru-um{ki} a-ra2 1(u) la2 1(disz@t)-kam-asz ba-hul

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)

Collections

British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Seal information:
unsealed
Artifact comments:

Text Information

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

Related publications

primary: PPAC 5, 998

[Sigrist2013PPAC5] Sigrist, Marcel, and Tohru Ozaki. 2013. Administrative Ur III Texts in the British Museum (AUTBM). Part I-II. Periodic Publications on Ancient Civilizations (PPAC) 5. Changchun, China: Northeast Normal University. The Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 087426
Accession No.: 1900-10-15, 0044

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Šulgi.44.07.00, Šulgi.44.08.00
Alternative Years:
Date Comments:
Accounting Period: Šulgi.44.07.00 to Šulgi.44.08.00

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-10-25 at 08:39:35	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2023-08-19 at 13:10:32	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-01-21 at 07:53:06	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
2015-12-20 at 17:24:06	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2015-05-05 at 10:19:35	CDLI	Atf	CDLI		CDLI	approved
2014-02-01 at 17:58:50	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2007-12-12 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	Cripps, Eric L.; Molina, Manuel		CDLI	approved

External Resources

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

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (064847) (064847)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.87426) (BM.87426)
The British Museum Collection (W_1900-1015-44) (W_1900-1015-44)

Notes

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Cite this Artifact

“PPAC 5, 0998 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P378669.

PPAC 5, 0998 artifact entry (No. P378669). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P378669 (Original work published 2007)

PPAC 5, 0998 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P378669 (Accessed: January 6, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-06]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 0998 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P378669},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P378669},
}

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Cite this Artifact

“PPAC 5, 0998 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P378669.

PPAC 5, 0998 artifact entry (No. P378669). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P378669 (Original work published 2007)

PPAC 5, 0998 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P378669 (Accessed: January 6, 2026).

@misc{2024PPAC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-06]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 0998 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P378669},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P378669},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/10/25/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P378669
LB  - CDLI:P378669
M1  - 2026/1/6/
TI  - PPAC 5, 0998 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P378669
ER  -