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BM Messenger 257 (P107136)

Administrative tag 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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British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 020173

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tag

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative (pisan-dub-ba)

Language(s)

Sumerian

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object tag
obverse
1. pisan-dub-ba
en: Basket-of-tablets:
2. udu gukkal gub-ba
en: sheep, fat-tailed sheep stationed,
3. a-bi2-si2-im-ti
en: Abi-simti
4. ugula szi-a-a szusz3
en: foreman Ši’aya, cattle manager,
5. udu ku-ba-tum
en: sheep k.,
6. ugula lu2-{d}nanna szabra nin
en: foreman Lu-Nanna, chief household administrator of the queen,
reverse
1. udu e2-gal
en: sheep of the palace,
2. ugula nam-ha-ni szusz3
en: foreman Namḫani, cattle manager,
3. i3-gal2
en: are here;
4. sza3 gir2-su{ki}
en: in Girsu,
5. mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal uri5{ki}-ma-ke4 na-ru2-a-mah {d}en-lil2 {d}nin-lil2-ra mu-ne-du3
en: year: “Šu-Suen, king of Ur, Big-Stele for Enlil Ninlil, erected.”

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)

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British Museum, London, UK

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Artifact type: Tag
Material: Clay
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Genre(s): Administrative (pisan-dub-ba)
Language(s): Sumerian

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primary: BM Messenger, 257

[Sigrist1990MessengerTexts] Sigrist, Marcel. 1990. Messenger Texts from the British Museum. Potomac, Maryland: Capital Decisions Limited.

Accessioned in the BM: 95-10-17,213

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Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 020173
Accession No.: 1895-10-17, 0213

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.06.00.00
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Accounting Period: 0

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-08-19 at 13:39:11	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
2017-05-19 at 22:01:44	Englund, Robert K.	atf	Ozaki Tohru		CDLI	approved
2016-12-15 at 17:01:47	Englund, Robert K.	atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2015-05-06 at 08:17:06	CDLI	atf	CDLI		CDLI	approved
2014-12-10 at 10:59:14	Englund, Robert K.	atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2011-07-22 at 13:26:46	Englund, Robert K.	atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2011-05-02 at 14:10:16	Englund, Robert K.	atf	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	approved
2006-10-12 at 12:17:30	CDLI	atf	CDLI		CDLI	approved
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00	CDLI	artifact	Ajango, Kelsey M.; Aupperle, Eric; Cripps, Eric L.; Dahl, Jacob L.; Englund, Robert K.; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Freedman, Sally M.; Galador, Louis; Guerra, Dylan; Heinle, Michael; Hilgert, Markus; Jones, Jillian; Lafont, Bertrand; Molina, Manuel; Reid, Nicholas; Reynolds, Kathryn R.; Santoïemma, Loïc		CDLI	approved

External Resources

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Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (032448)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.20173)
The British Museum Collection (W_1895-1017-213)

Notes

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“BM Messenger 257 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107136.

BM Messenger 257 artifact entry (No. P107136). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107136 (Original work published 2001)

BM Messenger 257 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107136 (Accessed: September 28, 2023).

@misc{2023BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2023-09-28]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {BM {Messenger} 257 artifact entry},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107136},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
ID  - P107136
LB  - CDLI:P107136
M1  - 2023/9/28/
TI  - BM Messenger 257 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107136
ER  -

“BM Messenger 257 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107136.

BM Messenger 257 artifact entry (No. P107136). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107136 (Original work published 2001)

BM Messenger 257 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107136 (Accessed: September 28, 2023).

@misc{2023BM,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2023-09-28]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {BM {Messenger} 257 artifact entry},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107136},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/8/19/
ID  - P107136
LB  - CDLI:P107136
M1  - 2023/9/28/
TI  - BM Messenger 257 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P107136
ER  -

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