CDLI Seals 013203 (physical) (P511716)
Administrative Cylinder seal excavated in Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar), dated to the Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UKMetadata / catalogue
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Museum Collection(s)
British Museum, London, UKMuseum Number
BM 122553Provenience
Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)Material(s)
GlassLanguage(s)
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55.9 mm × 19.9 mmSeal
surface a
1. [...]-du lem-nu-u2-a#
2. sa-[ni]-ni# e-sir-ma
3. gap#?-szu# gal#-le2-e# kit-mu-ru re-di-i
4. i-na qi2-bit _{d}utu dingir_-ia [...]
5. [szi]-ih-t,i lem-ni sa-ni-ni
6. li2-qal-lil li2#-is-sa-pi2-ih gal-le2-e
7. li2-is,-s,a-bit ri-di-i
Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)
Consult word list of Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)
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Artifact type:
Cylinder seal Artifact type comments:
physical
- Material: Glass
- Measurements (mm): 55.9 high × 19.9 wide
- Weight:
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- Condition Description:
- Join Information:
- Seal no.: S013203
- Seal information:
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Artifact comments:
physical
- Genre(s):
- Language(s):
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primary: WAS 4, 1K 19
[Collon2016WAS4] Collon, Dominique, and Edith Porada. 2016. Cylinder Seals. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum 4. British Museum Press.
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primary: LAOS 9, 253
[ZomerLaos9] Zomer, Elyze. 2018. Corpus of Middle Babylonian and Middle Assyrian Incantations. Vol. 9. Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien. Harrassowitz.
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history: Principles of composition, no. 190
[Matthews1990PrinciplesComposition] Matthews, Donald M. 1990. Principles of Composition in Near Eastern Glyphic of the Later Second Millennium B.C. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Series Archaeologica 8.
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history: UE 05, p. 90
[Woolley1939UE5] Woolley, C. Leonard. 1939. Ur Excavations: The Ziggurat and Its Surroundings. Ur Excavations 5.
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history: UE 8, 95, pl. 35
[Woolley1965UE8] Woolley, C. Leonard. 1965. The Kassite Period and the Period of the Assyrian Kings. Ur Excavations, vol. 8.
- Composite No.:
- Museum No.: BM 122553
- Accession No.:
- Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
- Elevation: level Kurigalzu I
- Stratigraphic Level:
- Excavation No: U 12688
- Findspot Square: foundation, SW gate of Nanna/ Sîn/ Suen temple
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Findspot Comments:
Hoard. (U.12688-12691).
- Period: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)
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| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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| 2025-07-16 at 11:55:14 | Pagé-Perron, Émilie | Visual Annotation | Bampfield, Lara | Pagé-Perron, Émilie | approved |
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| 2024-06-04 at 17:28:30 | de Ridder, Jacob Jan | Artifact | de Ridder, Jacob Jan | de Ridder, Jacob Jan | approved |
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| 2023-12-09 at 14:21:25 | Firth, Richard | Artifact | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved |
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| 2023-10-02 at 17:52:40 | Firth, Richard | Artifact | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | approved |
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| 2023-09-10 at 21:32:33 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact | Rattenborg, Rune | Geomapping Landscapes of Writing | Rattenborg, Rune | approved |
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| 2018-07-11 at 03:23:00 | Pagé-Perron, Émilie | Atf | Pagé-Perron, Émilie | CDLI | approved |
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| 2018-07-07 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact | Dahl, Jacob L. | CDLI | approved |
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Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:
- The British Museum Collection (W_1929-1017-365) (W_1929-1017-365)
This artifact is a physical seal. See below of a list of its impression(s):
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Cite this Artifact
@misc{2024CDLI,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-11-20]},
year = {2024},
month = {jun 4},
title = {CDLI {Seals} 013203 (physical) artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P511716},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P511716},
}
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