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PPAC 5, 1425 (P379925)

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 093220

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 1(u) 3(disz) ma-na siki tug2 [...] lugal
2. 3(u) ma-na siki tug2 3(disz)-kam us2
3. 6(asz) gu2 siki tug2 guz-za 4(disz)-kam us2
4. [a2] gesz-gar-ra
reverse
1. ur-{d}hendur-sag
2. szu ba-ti
3. iti GAN2-masz
4. mu en-nun-e-{d}amar-{d}suen-ra-ki-ag2 en eridu{ki} ba-hun

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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unsealed
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Text Information

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

Related publications

primary: PPAC 5, 1425

[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 093220
Accession No.: 1901-02-09, nn

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Amar-Suen.08.01.00
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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 13:27:14	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
2018-07-17 at 03:53:43	Firth, Richard	Transliteration	Firth, Richard		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 (066135) (066135)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.93220) (BM.93220)
British Museum Collection (W_1901-0209-837) (W_1901-0209-837)

Notes

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Cite this Artifacts

“PPAC 5, 1425 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P379925.

PPAC 5, 1425 artifact entry (No. P379925). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P379925 (Original work published 2007)

PPAC 5, 1425 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P379925 (Accessed: January 26, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-26]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 1425 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P379925},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P379925},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“PPAC 5, 1425 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P379925.

PPAC 5, 1425 artifact entry (No. P379925). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P379925 (Original work published 2007)

PPAC 5, 1425 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P379925 (Accessed: January 26, 2026).

@misc{2024PPAC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-26]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 1425 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P379925},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P379925},
}

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