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PPAC 5, 1580 (P380246)

Administrative tablet & envelope 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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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 095952

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 2(u) la2 1(disz@t) ug3-IL2 zu2-[lum] 2(ban2)-ta
2. gir2-su{ki}-ta
3. giri3 {d}ba-ba6-eb2-<gu>-ul
reverse
1. iti ezem-{d}dumu-zi
seal 1
column 1
1. {d}szul-gi
2. nita kal-ga
3. lugal uri5{ki}-ma
column 2
1. {d}ba-[ba6-eb2-gu-ul]
2. [ra2-gaba]
3. ARAD2-zu

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)

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British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet & envelope
Material: Clay
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Text Information

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

Related publications

primary: PPAC 5, 1580

[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 095952
Accession No.: 1902-04-12, nn

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
Elevation:
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Findspot Square:
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: 00.00.06.00
Alternative Years:
Date Comments:
Accounting Period: 0

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
2023-10-28 at 21:03:16	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune; Taylor, Jonathan	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-01-21 at 07:56:19	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
2015-05-05 at 10:19:43	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

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Seals

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

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 006176 (composite) (P458886)	Puzriš-Dagan (mod. Drehem)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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“PPAC 5, 1580 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P380246.

PPAC 5, 1580 artifact entry (No. P380246). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P380246 (Original work published 2007)

PPAC 5, 1580 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P380246 (Accessed: April 24, 2025).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-24]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 1580 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P380246},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P380246},
}

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“PPAC 5, 1580 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P380246.

PPAC 5, 1580 artifact entry (No. P380246). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P380246 (Original work published 2007)

PPAC 5, 1580 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P380246 (Accessed: April 24, 2025).

@misc{2024PPAC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-24]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 1580 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P380246},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P380246},
}

TY  - ELEC
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M1  - 2025/4/24/
TI  - PPAC 5, 1580 artifact entry
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ER  -

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