JCS 31, 237 08 (P112116)

Administrative tablet & envelope excavated in Puzriš-Dagan (mod. Drehem), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Museum Number

Dartmouth 43-5-8874 & 43-5-8875

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Puzriš-Dagan (mod. Drehem)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. 2(disz) ab2
2. mu kiszib3 na-sa6
3. ki a-ti-da-ka mu-gal2-am3-sze3
4. kiszib3 a-ti-da
reverse
1. ib2-ra
  blank space
2. mu ur-bi2-lum{ki} ba-hul
envelope
obverse
1. 2(disz) ab2 mu ki na-sa6-ka
2. ki a-ti-da-ka
3. mu-gal2-am3-sze3
  blank space
  seal impression
4. kiszib3 a-ti-da-kam ib2-ra
reverse
1. mu# [ur]-bi2-lum{ki} ba-hul
  blank space
  seal impression
seal 1
1. a-ti-da
2. dub-sar
3. dumu it-ra-ak-i3-li2

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)

  • Artifact type: Tablet & envelope
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: JCS 31 (pp. 232- 246), 237 08

    [Foster1979JCS31] Foster, Benjamin R. 1979. “Texts and Fragments.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 31 (4): 232–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/1359753.

  • history: Orient 55, p.117-154, p. 119 1

    [Widell2020Hood] Widell, Magnus. 2020. “Ur III Economy and Bureaucracy. The Neo-Sumerian Cuneiform Tablets in the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College (I).” Orient, Report of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan 55: 117–54.

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: Dartmouth 43-5-8874 & 43-5-8875
  • Accession No.:

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-06-19 at 18:48:57 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2019-02-20 at 11:28:54 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2016-01-03 at 08:01:00 Firth, Richard Atf Firth, Richard CDLI approved View
2011-07-22 at 13:34:10 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:15:09 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2009-06-03 at 10:09:02 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:19:22 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

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

Seal Provenience Period Date
CDLI Seals 001826 (composite) (P454536) Irisagrig (mod. uncertain) Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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Cite this Artifact
“JCS 31, 237 08 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 19, 2024. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P112116.
JCS 31, 237 08 artifact entry (No. P112116). (2024, June 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P112116 (Original work published 2001)
JCS 31, 237 08 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P112116 (Accessed: March 18, 2025).
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	title = {JCS 31, 237 08 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P112116},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P112116},
}

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