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Ur III
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Sumerian
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Umma |
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Seal |
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0000 - 00 - 00 |
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Excavation No. |
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Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School - Crozer Museum (Rochester, NY) (dispersed), Unknown, Unknown
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Crozer 007
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Author of Transliteration
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| Transliteration of text | 1991 | Sigrist, M. ( Rochester 169 ) | | Revision of text | 2001 | Maaijer, R. de / Jagersma, B. ( CDLI ) | | Revision of text | 2001→ | Molina, M. ( BDTNS ) |
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Remarks
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Tablet auctioned at Sotheby’s, 2003.06.20, Sale N07914 Lot 43.
The information on this Lot provided in Sotheby's catalogue was the following:
http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4269D
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2003/fine-books-and-manuscripts-including-americana-n07914/lot.43.html
«Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Sale: N07914 | Location: New York
Auction Dates: Session 1: Fri, 20 Jun 03 10:15 AM
LOT 43
Cuneiform Tablets
8,000–12,000 USD
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 5,400 USD
Measurements:
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Description:
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Fifty-five (55) items in all, including 47 clay tablets, 2 clay cylinder fragments, 1 clay cone, 2 inscribed stone fragments, 1 clay figurine, 1 inscribed statuette, and 1 decorated shell or stone object. The tablets are all administrative in nature, concerning things like allotments of oil, cloth(ing), linen, silver, gold, personnel, real estate, hides, cereals, sheep, lambs, and workers, and lists of personnel. Some have seal impressions, including those of a scribe, Shul-pa'e. They date to the Ur III (2112-2004 bc) and Old Babylonian (2000-1600) periods. The cylinders are in incomplete or fragmentary condition and in either poor or fair condition. They probably concern royal building projects, are partially legible, and date to either Ur III or Old Babylonian kings. The 3 stone votive objects are also fragmentary, inscribed with Sumerian, and could date anywhere in the later Third Millennium bc., The cone bears a building inscription of the later Old Babylonian king, Sin-Kashid, ca. 1870 bc. The clay figurine is of unknown date and appears to represent a deity or demon. Comprising: i) Fragment of inscribed statuette. Sumerian inscription. Third millennium bc. Red stone (Jasper?). ii) Fragment of Sumerian inscribed stone (dark grey, black) . Third millennium bc. Part of four lines visible but incomplete. Possibly part of votive door socket or statue. iii) Fragment of inscribed stone statue or door socket. Part of 4 lines legible but incomplete. Poor condition. iv) Fragment of large clay cylinder with royal building inscription. Mostly illegible. Poor condition. Third or second millennium bc. v) Large clay cylinder with royal building inscription. Probably Old or Middle Babylonian (2000-1100 bc). Incomplete, partially repaired, and in fair condition. Mostly legible. vi) Medium-Large administrative tablet concerning cloth or clothing. Near complete and in good to fine condition. Ur III period, ca. 2112-2004 bc. vii) Old Babylonian (2000-1600 bc) administrative tablet listing personnel. Small-medium, complete, in fine condition. viii) Old Babylonian (2000-1600 bc) administrative tablet concerning sheep. Small, complete, in fine condition. ix) Large Ur III (2112-2004 bc) administrative tablet listing personnel. Has seal impressions. Most of reverse obliterated. Incomplete, in good condition. x) Incomplete, large Ur III administrative tablet, concerning levies of real estate(?). xi) Complete Old Babylonian administrative tablet listing cloth or clothing recipients. In fine condition. xii) Incomplete Ur III administrative tablet concerning cereals. Preserved parts in good condition. xiii) Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning cloth recipients. In fair to good condition, but parts are exfoliating. xiv) Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning cloth recipients. In good condition. xv) Incomplete Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning volumes of unknown substance. Preserved part in good condition. xvi) Nearly complete Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning cloth recipients. xvii) Incomplete Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning lambs. xviii) Nearly complete Ur III or Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning large quantity of sa-gu. In fair to good condition, with repairs. xix) Nearly complete Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning cloth(ing). In fair condition. xx) Nearly complete Ur III administrative tablet listing personnel. In good condition. xxi) Complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning cloth(ing). In fine condition but for modern gouge. xxii) Complete Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning workers. In fine condition but for repaired break. xxiii) Complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning cloth(ing) for overseers. In fine condition. xxiv) Complete Ur III or Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning weight or payments in shekels of unknown substance. In good condition. xxv) Complete earlier Ur III administrative tablet concerning large weight of goat leather. Dates to reign of Shulgi. xxvi) Complete Ur III or Old Babylonian tablet concerning sheep. Fair to good condition. xxvii) Complete UrIII administrative tablet concerning oil. Fine condition. xxviii) Complete Ur III or Old Babylonian administrative tablet . Poor to fair condition (worn). xxix) Nearly complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning cloth(ing). Half of reverse missing, in good condition. xxx) Nearly complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning cloth(ing). Reverse exfoliating; fair to good condition. xxxi) Complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning cloth(ing). Good to fine. xxxii) Small nearly complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning cloth(ing). Good. xxxiii) Small nearly complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning sheep and goat. Good. xxxiv) Complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning cloth(ing) with seal impressions. Fine. xxxv) Complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning weights of cloth, with seal impressions of Ur-Sin, a scribe. Fine, but with a repaired break. Dates to Shulgi year 25, ca. 2071 bc. xxxvi) Complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning linen, with seal impressions. Fine. xxxvii) Complete Ur III administrative tablet, with impressions from seal of a scribe. Fair to Good. xxxviii) Complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning linen and price in shekels of silver, cloth(ing), and oil, with seal impressions. Fine. xxxix) Complete clay cone with brief building inscription of king Sin-kashid, ca. 1870 bc (Old Babylonian king of Uruk). Good . xxxx) Complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning cloth(ing), with seal impressions of scribe. Good to fine. xxxxi) Nearly complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning weight or payment for house and hides(?), with seal impressions of scribe. Good to fine, with damage to reverse. xxxxii) Nearly complete Ur III administrative tablet, with seal impression. Fair. xxxxiii) Nearly complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning silver or gold payment, with seal impressions. Fair. xxxxiv) Nearly complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning barley, with seal impressions. Fair. xxxxv) Nearly complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning oil(?), with seal impression of scribe Shulpa-e featuring very clear presentation scene. Good. xxxxvi) Complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning oil, with impression of scribe Shulpa-e. Good to Fine. xxxxvii) Ornate shell or stone pierced lengthwise. Uninscribed and unknown style or period. xxxxviii) Nearly complete Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning orchards. Fair and repaired. xxxxix) Nearly complete large Ur III administrative tablet concerning cereals. Fair. l) Nearly complete large Ur III administrative tablet listing personnel, with seal impressions. Poor to fair and repaired. li) Nearly complete large Ur III administrative tablet listing personnel. Fair, with large part of obverse obliterated. lii) Nearly complete Ur III administrative tablet listing sheep owners, with seal impressions. Fair. liii) Complete clay figurine of unknown demon or deity. Date unknown. Good. liv) Nearly complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning sheep and goat, with seal impressions. Poor, with glue. lv) Large incomplete Ur III administrative tablet concerning personnel. Four or more columns. Poor, with glue.»
[M. Molina]
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0 tug2nig2-lam2 3-kam us2
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0 ⌈tug2⌉nig2-lam2 4-kam us2
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0 tug2guz-za 3-kam us2
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⌈13?⌉ tug2guz-za 4-kam us2
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8 tug2guz-za gen
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195 tug2uš-bar
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11 gada gen
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6 gada ša3-HA
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ki Ur-gišgigir-ta
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0 tug2nig2-lam2 3-kam us2
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11
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6 tug2nig2-lam2 4-kam us2
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5 tug2guz-za 3-kam us2
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12 tug2guz-za 4-kam us2
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10 la2 1 tug2guz-za gen
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206 tug2uš-bar
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+1 gada-sig5
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+5 gada gen
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ki Uš-mu-ta
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2 tug2nig2-lam2 3-kam us2
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2 tug2nig2-lam2 4-kam ⌈us2⌉
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7 tug2guz-za 3-kam us2
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13 tug2guz-za 4-kam us2
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10 tug2guz-za gen
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212 tug2uš-bar
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11 gada gen
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5 gada ša3-HA
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ki Lugal-ur2-ra-ni-ta
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4 tug2nig2-lam2 4?-kam us2
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3 tug2guz-za 3-kam us2
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13 tug2guz-za 4-kam us2
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8 tug2guz-za gen
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68 tug2uš-bar
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6 tug2guz-za gen ša3-HA
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3 gada gen
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ki Lugal-ur2-ra-ni lu2 ensi2-ka-ta
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2 tug2guz-za 3-kam us2
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3 tug2nig2-lam2 4-kam us2
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10 tug2guz-za 4-kam us2
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10 tug2guz-za gen
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70 tug2uš-bar
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1 gada gen
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r. i
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ki Ur-dŠara2-ta
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43
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91 tug2uš-bar tug2 didli
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tug2 gu2-na
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4 tug2guz-za 4-<kam> us2
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8 tug2guz-za gen
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tug2 a2 uš-bar
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I3-kal-la
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3 tug2nig2-lam2 3-kam us2
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10 tug2nig2-lam2 4-kam us2
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10 tug2guz-za 3-kam us2
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25 tug2guz-za 4-kam us2
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40 tug2guz-za gen
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2 gada-sig5
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18 gada gen
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šu-nigin 220 la2 1 tug2 gada hi-a
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la2-i3 du3-a
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šu-nigin ⌈842?⌉ tug2uš-bar
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tug2 uru tuku5-a
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