1953.110: Cuneiform Tablet: Ur III Administrative Text
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1953.110
- Title
- Cuneiform Tablet: Ur III Administrative Text
- Classification
- Tablets
- Work Type
- tablet
- Date
- c. 2094-2047 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Sumer (Mesopotamia)
- Period
- Neo-Sumerian period, Third Dynasty of Ur
- Culture
- Neo-Sumerian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291257
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Clay
- Technique
- Impressed
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 3.7 x 3.6 x 1.4 cm (1 7/16 x 1 7/16 x 9/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- From Tell Jokha; formerly in the possession of Edgar J. Banks (1866-1945).
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- CDLI P393092
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Museum Collection
- Accession Year
- 1953
- Object Number
- 1953.110
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Square shaped clay tablet with cuneiform writing. The tablet is inscribed on both sides with text written in the Sumerian language. The tablet is an Ur III administrative document from the reign of Shulgi of Ur, recording the receipt of barley. The calendrical system suggests that the text is from Umma (modern Tell Jokha) and is dated to the 3rd month (Umma calendar) of the 44th year of Shulgi's reign. There are multiple seal impressions of the scribe over the text on the obverse and upper part of reverse surfaces.
Text reads:
2 (barig) dabin / ki Lugal-šu:nir-ta / kišib A-ra2-mu / iti še-kar-a-gal2-la / mu Lu-lu-bum2 / Si-mu-ru-um / ba-hul
Seal: Ur-{d}Suen / dub-sar / dumu ur-gigir
Two measures of barley (received) from Lugal-shunir; seal of Aramu; month of Šekarragalla, the year Lullubum and Simurum were destroyed;
Seal impression: Ur-Suen the scribe, son of Ur-Gigir.
Publication History
- Deena Ragavan, “Cuneiform Texts and Fragments in the Harvard Art Museum / Arthur M. Sackler Museum”, Cuneiform Digital Library Journal (2010), no. 4.2
Verification Level
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