BM 030220 (P390488)

Account tablet excavated in Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

Cite

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 030220

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative > Account

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Administrative > Account
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced	--.--.02.--
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P390488
Permalink	https://cdli.network/entity/P390488

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience	Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Written In
Excavation Number	U —
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	British Museum, London, UK
Museum Number	BM 030220
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	BM.30220

References

history: Fs Sigrist (pp. 231-244), 238 n. 35

[Verderame2008FsSigrist] Verderame, Lorenzo. 2008. “Rassam’s Activities At Tello (1879) and the Earliest Acquisition of Neo-Sumerian Tablets in the British Museum.” In On the Third Dynasty of Ur: Studies in Honor of Marcel Sigrist, 231–44.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-11-29 at 16:36:32	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-10-21 at 13:03:08	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	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
2009-08-22 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	CDLI		CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifacts

“BM 030220 Artifact Entry.” (2009) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). November 29, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P390488.

BM 030220 artifact entry (No. P390488). (2025, November 29). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P390488 (Original work published 2009)

BM 030220 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P390488 (Accessed: April 11, 2026).

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Cite this Artifacts

“BM 030220 Artifact Entry.” (2009) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). November 29, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P390488.

BM 030220 artifact entry (No. P390488). (2025, November 29). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P390488 (Original work published 2009)

BM 030220 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P390488 (Accessed: April 11, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-04-11]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {nov 29},
	title = {BM 030220 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P390488},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P390488},
}

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LB  - CDLI:P390488
M1  - 2026/4/11/
TI  - BM 030220 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P390488
ER  -