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PPAC 5, 1162 (P379074)

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 087901

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(barig) sze lugal
2. iti ezem-{d}szul-gi-ta
3. iti sze-il2-la-sze3
4. sze-ba iti 6(disz)-kam
5. ki lu2-gi-na-ta
reverse
1. ur-{d}ba-ba6 dumu nig2-u2-rum-ke4
2. szu ba-ti
3. mu {gesz}gu-za {d}en-lil2-la2 ba-dim2

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
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Text Information

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

Related publications

primary: PPAC 5, 1162

[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 087901
Accession No.: 1900-10-16, 0411

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Amar-Suen.03.07.00, Amar-Suen.03.12.00
Alternative Years:
Date Comments:
Accounting Period: Amar-Suen.03.07.00 to Amar-Suen.03.12.00

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-10-25 at 08:39:35	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-08-19 at 13:19:51	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:53:06	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2014-02-01 at 17:58:50	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2007-12-12 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Cripps, Eric L.; Molina, Manuel		CDLI	Approved

External Resources

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Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (065246) (065246)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.87901) (BM.87901)
British Museum Collection (W_1900-1016-411) (W_1900-1016-411)

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Cite this Artifacts

“PPAC 5, 1162 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P379074.

PPAC 5, 1162 artifact entry (No. P379074). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P379074 (Original work published 2007)

PPAC 5, 1162 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P379074 (Accessed: January 26, 2026).

@misc{2024PPAC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-26]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 1162 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P379074},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P379074},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“PPAC 5, 1162 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P379074.

PPAC 5, 1162 artifact entry (No. P379074). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P379074 (Original work published 2007)

PPAC 5, 1162 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P379074 (Accessed: January 26, 2026).

@misc{2024PPAC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-26]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 1162 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P379074},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P379074},
}

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DA  - 2024/10/25/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P379074
LB  - CDLI:P379074
M1  - 2026/1/26/
TI  - PPAC 5, 1162 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P379074
ER  -