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PPAC 5, 1293 (P379610)

Letter 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 088657

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Letter

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. ur-{d}ig-alim-ra
2. u3-na-a-du11
3. 2(asz) sze gur lugal
4. lu2-{d}nin-szubur-ra
5. he2-na-ab-szum2-mu
6. kiszib3-ba-ni szu ha-ba-ab-ti
reverse
blank space
seal 1
1. lu2-{d}ba-ba6
2. dub-sar
3. dumu {d}utu-[bar-ra]
4. [ra-gaba]
line not in edition

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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Text Information

Genre(s): Letter
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: PPAC 5, 1293

[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 088657
Accession No.: 1901-02-09, nn

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello) [uncertain]
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: 00.00.00.00
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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 13:32:21	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:56:19	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2014-02-03 at 08:33:14	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	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

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

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (065777) (065777)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.88657) (BM.88657)
British Museum Collection (W_1901-0209-374) (W_1901-0209-374)

Seals

This artifact is impressed by the following seal(s):

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 003055 (composite) (P455765)	Girsu (mod. Tello)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Notes

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Cite this Artifacts

“PPAC 5, 1293 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P379610.

PPAC 5, 1293 artifact entry (No. P379610). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P379610 (Original work published 2007)

PPAC 5, 1293 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P379610 (Accessed: March 2, 2026).

@misc{2024PPAC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-02]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 1293 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P379610},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P379610},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/10/25/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P379610
LB  - CDLI:P379610
M1  - 2026/3/2/
TI  - PPAC 5, 1293 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P379610
ER  -

Cite this Artifacts

“PPAC 5, 1293 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P379610.

PPAC 5, 1293 artifact entry (No. P379610). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P379610 (Original work published 2007)

PPAC 5, 1293 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P379610 (Accessed: March 2, 2026).

@misc{2024PPAC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-02]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 1293 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P379610},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P379610},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2024/10/25/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P379610
LB  - CDLI:P379610
M1  - 2026/3/2/
TI  - PPAC 5, 1293 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P379610
ER  -