MVN 17, 060 (P119680)

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

Metadata / catalogue

Flat catalogue

As CSV As TSV

Expanded catalogue

As JSON

Linked catalogue

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Text / annotations

Text data

As ATF As JTF

Linked annotations

As TTL As JSON-LD As RDF/JSON As RDF/XML

Related publications

As CSV As BibTeX

Chemical Data

Seal Chemistry

As CSV
Metadata history Transliteration history

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 012294

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

-

tablet
obverse
column 1
  beginning broken
1'. [...]-a
2'. [...] 2(disz) sila3
3'. [...]
4'. za?-am?-zi-a
5'. gur
6'. la2-ia3 a-sza3 kab2-du11-ga
  blank space
7'. 4(gesz'u) 5(u) 6(asz) 2(barig) 2(disz) sila3 sze gur
8'. sza3-bi-ta
9'. [...] 5(u) 4(asz) gur
10'. kiszib3-bi 2(disz)
11'. kiszib3 ARAD2-mu
12'. x 2(asz)# gur
  rest broken
column 2
  beginning broken
1'. ugu2 lu2-[...]-ka gar
2'. 1(gesz'u) 7(gesz2) 4(u) 3(asz) 3(barig) gur
3'. kiszib3 lu2-gesz-sze x x
4'. 5(gesz2) 2(u) 5(asz) 2(barig)# gur x x ki-gal2
  blank space
5'. sa2-du11 sze-ba
6'. 5(u) 1(asz) 3(barig) gur#
7'. kiszib3 al-la
8'. 3(u) gur
9'. kiszib3 ur-szu-ga-lam-ma
10'. e2 {d}szul-gi
11'. 1(gesz2) 4(u) gur
12'. kiszib3 a-tu
13'. [...] gur
14'. [...] x
  rest broken
column 3
1. [...]
2. [...]
3. 2(asz) gur
4. kiszib3 lu2-{d}[...]
5. 1(u) 2(asz) 3(barig) 2(disz) sila3 gur
6. kiszib3 lu2-na-[...]
7. e2 {d}nin-[...]
8. [...]
9. sze-numun ur5-ta a2 lu2 hun-[ga2]
10. 1(u) 2(asz) 3(ban2) gur
11. kiszib3 lu2-{d}nin-[...]
12. 6(asz) 1(barig) 3(ban2) gur
13. kiszib3 nam-zi-tar-[...] dumu ma-an-szum2#
14. zi3 KA e2 {d}nin-gir2#?-su#
15. [...]
  rest broken
reverse
column 1
1. szunigin 3(gesz'u) 9(gesz2) 5(asz) 2(barig) 2(disz) sila3 sze gur lugal
2. zi-ga
3. la2-ia3 1(gesz2) 1(u) 1(asz) sze gur
4. a2-da-da
5. 3(gesz'u) 4(gesz2) 5(u) 7(asz) gur
6. sze gesz e3-a
  blank space
7. szunigin ugu2# [...]
8. x [...]
9. x [...]
10. x [...]
  rest broken
column 2
1. kiszib3 {d}en-[lil2]-zi-sza3-gal2
2. 1(gesz2) 1(u) gur
3. kiszib3 ARAD2-mu
4. 1(u) 2(asz) 1(barig) gur
5. kiszib3 ur-{d}hendur-sag
6. ugu2 ARAD2-mu ga2-ga2-dam
7. 6(gesz2) 4(u) 5(asz) 2(ban2) gur
8. kiszib3 lu2-gi-na
9. 1(gesz2) 4(u) 1(asz) 2(barig) gur
10. kiszib3 ur-{d}en-lil2
  blank space
11. sa2-du11 sze-ba
12. 1(gesz2) 3(u) 5(asz) 1(barig) gur
13. kiszib3 lu2-dingir-ra
14. 4(gesz2) 4(u) la2 1(barig) gur
15. kiszib3 a-tu
16. 2(u) 8(asz) 1(barig) gur
17. kiszib3-bi 2(disz)
column 3
1. [x ur]-szu-ga-lam-ma-sze3
2. kiszib3 ur-{d}nansze
3. e2 {d}szul-gi
  blank space
4. sze-numun
5. 1(u) 1(asz) 2(barig) KU# bu#?-ka
6. kiszib3 ur-{d}lamma szesz balag#-[...]
7. e2 {d}nin-tu
  blank space
8. szunigin 3(gesz'u) 2(gesz2) 1(u) 4(barig) 4(ban2) gur
9. zi-ga
10. 2(gesz2) 4(u) 6(asz) 2(ban2) gur
11. i3-dub a-sza3 a-tu-gaba-bar
12. [...] ab-ba
  blank space
13. [...] sze-bi u4 dim2-a
14. [...] x
  rest broken

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
  • Material: Clay
  • Measurements (mm):
  • Weight:
  • Artifact Preservation:
  • Condition Description:
  • Join Information:
  • Seal no.:
  • Seal information:
  • Artifact comments:

  • primary: MVN 17, 60

    [Pettinato1993MVN 17] Pettinato, Giovanni. 1993. Testi Economici Neo-Sumerici Del British Museum (BM 12230 - BM 12390). Vol. XVII. Materiali per Il Vocabolario Neosumerico. Roma: Multigrafica Editrice.

    sá-du11 se-ba

  • Composite No.:
  • Museum No.: BM 012294
  • Accession No.:

  • Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
  • Elevation:
  • Stratigraphic Level:
  • Excavation No:
  • Findspot Square:
  • Findspot Comments:

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-10-28 at 21:03:16 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune; Taylor, Jonathan Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
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 View
2017-03-03 at 09:53:57 Englund, Robert K. Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2011-07-22 at 13:45:42 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-05-02 at 14:23:10 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:22:24 CDLI Atf CDLI CDLI approved View
2001-12-20 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact CDLI CDLI approved View

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

General Notes: -
CDLI Notes: -
Cite this Artifact
“MVN 17, 060 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 28, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P119680.
MVN 17, 060 artifact entry (No. P119680). (2023, October 28). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P119680 (Original work published 2001)
MVN 17, 060 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P119680 (Accessed: July 3, 2024).
@misc{2023MVN,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-07-03]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {oct 28},
	title = {MVN 17, 060 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P119680},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P119680},
}


TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2023/10/28/
PY  - 2023
ID  - P119680
LB  - CDLI:P119680
M1  - 2024/7/3/
TI  - MVN 17, 060 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.ucla.edu/P119680
ER  -
This website uses essential cookies that are necessary for it to work properly. These cookies are enabled by default.