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BiOr 26, 174 BM 18568 (P106788)

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

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 018568

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Letter

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. lu2-{d}nin-gir2-su-ra
2. u3-na-a-du11
3. {d}ig-alim-i3-sa6-ra
4. 1(disz) tug2 he2-na-ab-szum2-mu
5. im sze-ba siki-ba
6. ga-bi2-gi
reverse
blank space
blank space
seal impression
seal 1
1. ba-zi
2. dub-sar
3. dumu szesz-szesz

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Consult sign list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Consult word list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Text Information

Genre(s): Letter
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: BiOr 26 (pp. 171-176), 174 BM 18568

[Hallo1969BiOr26] Hallo, William W. 1969. “The Neo-Sumerian Letter Orders.” Bibliotheca Orientalis 26: 171–76.
history: Michalowski Letters, 081:134

[Michalowski1993Letters] Michalowski, Piotr. 1993. Letters from Early Mesopotamia. Vol. 3. Writings from the Ancient World.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 018568
Accession No.: 1895-03-29, 0226

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: 00.00.00.00
Alternative Years:
Date Comments:
Accounting Period: 0

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-09-09 at 15:34:42	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2024-07-14 at 14:36:59	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2024-07-04 at 08:40:46	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2024-07-04 at 08:39:26	Firth, Richard	Artifact, Other Entity	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	approved
2023-08-19 at 13:32:21	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	approved
2023-01-19 at 09:57:24	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	approved
2017-10-13 at 15:03:18	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2011-07-22 at 13:26:23	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2011-05-02 at 14:09:56	Englund, Robert K.	Atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2006-10-12 at 12:17:22	CDLI	Atf	CDLI		CDLI	approved
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact	CDLI		CDLI	approved

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Seals

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

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
CDLI Seals 002030 (composite) (P454740)	Girsu (mod. Tello)	Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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“BiOr 26, 174 BM 18568 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 9, 2024. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P106788.

BiOr 26, 174 BM 18568 artifact entry (No. P106788). (2024, September 9). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P106788 (Original work published 2001)

BiOr 26, 174 BM 18568 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P106788 (Accessed: December 13, 2024).

@misc{2024BiOr,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-12-13]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {sep 9},
	title = {BiOr 26, 174 {BM} 18568 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P106788},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P106788},
}

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“BiOr 26, 174 BM 18568 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 9, 2024. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P106788.

BiOr 26, 174 BM 18568 artifact entry (No. P106788). (2024, September 9). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P106788 (Original work published 2001)

BiOr 26, 174 BM 18568 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P106788 (Accessed: December 13, 2024).

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	year = {2024},
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	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P106788},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P106788},
}

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ER  -

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