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PPAC 5, 1178 (P413835)

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

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Text / annotations

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Chemical Data

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 088002

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 2(u) sze gur nig2-dab5
2. gesz-zi-in
reverse
1. iti kin-{d}inanna
seal 1
1. e-er-hi-{d}mar-tu
2. dumu ib-ni-{d}mar-tu
3. ARAD2 {d}mar-tu

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): Administrative
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: PPAC 5, 1178

[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 088002
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Elevation:
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: 00.00.06.00
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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 08:02:28	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2014-02-01 at 17:58:50	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2010-08-06 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Maidman, Maynard P.		CDLI	Approved

External Resources

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

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (172795) (172795)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.88002) (BM.88002)
British Museum Collection (W_1900-1016-512) (W_1900-1016-512)

Seals

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

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 006458 (composite) (P464088)	Nippur (mod. Nuffar)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Notes

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Cite this Artifacts

“PPAC 5, 1178 Artifact Entry.” (2010) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P413835.

PPAC 5, 1178 artifact entry (No. P413835). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P413835 (Original work published 2010)

PPAC 5, 1178 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P413835 (Accessed: March 18, 2026).

@misc{2024PPAC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-18]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 1178 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P413835},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P413835},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“PPAC 5, 1178 Artifact Entry.” (2010) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P413835.

PPAC 5, 1178 artifact entry (No. P413835). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P413835 (Original work published 2010)

PPAC 5, 1178 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P413835 (Accessed: March 18, 2026).

@misc{2024PPAC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-18]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 1178 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P413835},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P413835},
}

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DA  - 2024/10/25/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P413835
LB  - CDLI:P413835
M1  - 2026/3/18/
TI  - PPAC 5, 1178 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P413835
ER  -