BPOA 06, 0489 (P312684)

Letter tablet excavated in Umma (mod. Tell Jokha), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Museum Number

YBC 14183

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Letter

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

40.0 mm × 40.0 mm × 13.0 mm

Has seal impression(s)

tablet
obverse
1. 5(asz) sze ur5-ra gur
2. guru7 a-pi4-sal4{ki}
3. ki gu-du-du-ta
4. suhusz-gi
5. lu2 a-hu-ni
6. szu ba-ti
reverse
1. iti diri
2. mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal-e na-ru2-a-mah {d}en-lil2 {d}nin-lil2-ra mu-ne-du3
seal 1
1. suhusz-ki-in
2. szu-i ARAD2 a-hu-ni

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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): 40.0 high × 40.0 wide × 13.0 thick
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  • primary: BPOA 6, 489

    [Sigrist2009BPOA6] Sigrist, Marcel, and Tohru Ozaki. 2009. Neo-Sumerian Administrative Tablets from the Yale Babylonian Collection. Part One. Biblioteca Del Próximo Oriente Antiguo 6. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

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  • Museum No.: YBC 14183
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  • Provenience: Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)
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  • Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
  • Dates Referenced: Šū-Suen.06.13.00 (intercalated)
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  • Accounting Period: 0

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2023-01-21 at 07:05:30 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2011-07-22 at 14:51:26 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2010-06-12 at 10:25:58 Englund, Robert K. Atf Englund, Robert K. CDLI approved View
2009-10-23 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Molina, Manuel CDLI approved View

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

Seal Provenience Period Date
CDLI Seals 004039 (composite) (P456749) Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

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Cite this Artifact
“BPOA 06, 0489 Artifact Entry.” (2009) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). February 1, 2023. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P312684.
BPOA 06, 0489 artifact entry (No. P312684). (2023, February 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P312684 (Original work published 2009)
BPOA 06, 0489 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P312684 (Accessed: February 18, 2025).
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	title = {BPOA 06, 0489 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P312684},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P312684},
}


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