Administrative tablet excavated in Umma (mod. Tell Jokha), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Museum Collection(s)
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAMuseum Number
SM 1948.05.009Period
Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)Provenience
Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)Artifact Type
TabletMaterial(s)
ClayGenre / Subgenre(s)
Administrative (SM catalogue: sealed tablet: a list of mountain-sheep with fleece that died. (ri-ri-ga).)Language(s)
SumerianMeasurements
40.0 mm × 40.0 mm × 14.0 mmHas seal impression(s)
| Genre(s) | Administrative (SM catalogue: sealed tablet: a list of mountain-sheep with fleece that died. (ri-ri-ga).) |
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| Language(s) | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) |
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| Dates Referenced |
Amar-Suen.02.00.00 ?
added from SM catalogue, probably months/days missing in many
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| Accounting Period |
This artifact is impressed by the following seal(s):
| Seal | Seal Number | Provenience | Period | Date |
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| CDLI Seals 006150.3 (composite) (P534135) | S006150.3 | - | - |
| CDLI number | P408049 |
|---|---|
| LOD URI | https://cdli.network/entity/P408049 |
| Artifact type | Tablet |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 40.0 mm × 40.0 mm × 14.0 mm |
| Weight | |
| Material(s) | Clay |
| Preservation |
hole runs through the center of the tablet. otherwise complete; when the six tablets 1948.5.2 and 1948.5.7-11 came into the museum they were given the registration number 8973 a-f. When accession numbers were first assigned in the 1970s, these six tablet
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| Provenience | Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) |
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| Written In | |
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| Collection(s) |
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Museum Number | SM 1948.05.009 |
| Accession Number | 08973e (SM catalogue: 3174) |
| External Resource | Identifiers |
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| Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS) | 189565 |
history: Mayr SITU, p. 403 (seal)
| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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| 2024-06-13 at 18:45:18 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata, Other metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2010-06-04 at 00:00:00 | CDLI, CDLI | Artifact metadata | Ajango, Kelsey M.; Jones, Jillian; Notizia, Palmiro; Reynolds, Kathryn R. | CDLI, CDLI | Approved |
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@misc{2024SM,
note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-29]},
year = {2024},
month = {jun 13},
title = {SM 1948.05.009 artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P408049},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P408049},
}
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