TUT 225 (P135819)

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

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Museum Collection(s)

Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

Museum Number

VAT 02513

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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tablet
obverse
1. 1(barig) sze ur-sukkal
2. 1(barig) szesz-kal-la
3. 1(barig) sag-{d}nanna
4. 1(barig) lu2-{d}[ba]-ba6
5. 1(barig) ur-{d}a-zi-mu2-a
6. 1(barig) ur-{d}ba-ba6
7. 1(barig) ur-mes
8. 1(barig) lu2-{d}inanna
9. 1(barig) ur-nig2
reverse
1. 1(barig) lugal#-{gesz}gigir-re!
2. 2(asz) gur
3. ma2-lah5# ma2 lugal-sze3! DU-me
4. iti amar-a-a-si
5. ur-{gesz}gigir-ra u3-na#-a-du11!
6. ha-ma-ab-[szum2]-mu
7. mu ma2-gur8-mah ba-dim2
seal 1
1. gal-x-x
2. dub-sar

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

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: TUT, 225

    [Reisner1901TUT] Reisner, George A. 1901. Tempelurkunden Aus Telloh. Vol. 16. Mittheilungen Aus Den Orientalischen Sammlungen. Berlin : W. Spemann.

  • history: Michalowski Letters, 083:139

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

  • history: OrAnt 7, p.165-179, p. 176 17

    [Pettinato1968lettere] Pettinato, Giovanni. 1968. “Aggiunte al Corpus Di Lettere Amministrative Della Terza Dinastia Di Ur.” Oriens Antiquus 7: 165–79.

  • history: SVS 1/1, 225

    [Pettinato1985SVS1/1] Pettinato, Giovanni. 1985. G. Reisner, Tempelurkunden Aus Telloh: Testi. Vol. 1/1. Studi per Il Vocabolario Sumerico.

  • collation: OrAnt 13, p.199-210, p. 209

    [Pettinato1974TuT] Pettinato, Giovanni, and Luigi Cagni. 1974. “Miscellanea Neo-Sumerica, I: Collazioni a G. Reisner, Tempelurkunden Aus Telloh.” Oriens Antiquus 13: 199–210.

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  • Museum No.: VAT 02513
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  • Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.08.10.00
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  • Accounting Period: 0

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-07-07 at 13:35:55 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-07-07 at 13:32:58 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-07-04 at 08:40:46 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-07-04 at 08:39:26 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-07-02 at 13:34:45 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2021-12-09 at 08:52:35 Lafont, Bertrand Atf Lafont, Bertrand CDLI approved View
2013-07-27 at 09:41:55 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2013-07-27 at 09:37:34 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2011-07-22 at 14:12:28 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2006-10-12 at 12:28:42 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 002326 (composite) (P455036) Girsu (mod. Tello) Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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Cite this Artifact
“TUT 225 Artifact Entry.” (2001) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). July 7, 2024. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P135819.
TUT 225 artifact entry (No. P135819). (2024, July 7). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P135819 (Original work published 2001)
TUT 225 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P135819 (Accessed: December 14, 2024).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2024-12-14]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {jul 7},
	title = {TUT 225 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P135819},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P135819},
}


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