RTC 004 (P010558)

Administrative tablet excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), dated to the ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC) period and now kept in Louvre Museum, Paris, France

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Museum Collection(s)

Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Museum Number

AO 00406

Period

ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (fields.)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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tablet
obverse
column 1
1. sza3 absin3
2. 2(esze3@c) GAN2
3. szubur
4. 1(esze3@c) 2(iku@c) en-an-ne2
5. 2(iku@c) a-abzu-si
6. 3(iku@c) munus-gesztin
column 2
1. 1(esze3@c) |SAGxHA|-a-ti
2. 2(esze3@c) 2(iku@c) utu-ur-sag!
3. dilmun
4. 1(esze3@c) lugal-ur-sag
5. 5(iku@c) munus-a2-nu-kusz2
6. 1(esze3@c) nam-ni-sze3
column 3
1. 2(bur3@c) 1(esze3@c) 3(iku@c) masz-da3
2. 2(iku@c) alan-kur-ta
3. 1(esze3@c) 5(iku@c) amar-tur3
4. 2(bur3@c) bil3-kalam
reverse
column 1
1. 1(esze3@c) nig2-lul-le
2. 3(iku@c) |NI&NI|
3. 3(iku@c) utu-ur-sag
  blank space
column 2
1. szu-nigin2 8(bur3@c)? 1(esze3@c) GAN2
2. gesz-KA-ge#? GAN2

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: RTC, 4

    [Thureau-Dangin1903RTC] Thureau-Dangin, François. 1903. Recueil de Tablettes Chaldéennes. Paris: Ernest Leroux.

  • citation: ZA 66, p.156-195, p. 168

    [Edzard1976Wirtschaftstexte] Edzard, Dietz Otto. 1976. “Fāra Und Abu Ṣalābiḫ. Die „Wirtschaftstexte“.” Zeitschrift Für Assyriologie 66: 156–95.

  • citation: Prosopografia Fara, XVIf.

    [Pomponio1987Fara] Pomponio, Francesco. 1987. La Prosopografia Dei Testi Presargonici Di Fara. Studi Semitici ; Nuova Ser., 3. Roma : Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza.”

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  • Museum No.: AO 00406
  • Accession No.: AOTa 005

  • Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-04-11 at 16:18:03 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2010-06-11 at 09:04:21 Foxvog, Daniel A. Atf Foxvog, Daniel A. CDLI approved View
2001-12-04 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Englund, Robert K.; Hebenstreit, Laurent CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“RTC 004 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). April 11, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P010558.
RTC 004 artifact entry (No. P010558). (2023, April 11). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P010558 (Original work published 2001)
RTC 004 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P010558 (Accessed: March 14, 2025).
@misc{2023RTC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-03-14]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {apr 11},
	title = {RTC 004 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P010558},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P010558},
}


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