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Period |
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Provenance |
Object |
CDLI |
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Ur III
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Sumerian
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Puzriš-Dagān |
Tablet |
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Date |
Dates Referenced |
Measurements |
Seal |
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IS02 - 10 - 00 |
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36×49
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Owner |
Museum No. |
Accession No. |
Excavation No. |
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Artemis Gallery (auction house), Louisville, CO, USA
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Author of Transliteration
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| Transliteration of text | 1999 | Molina, M. ( BDTNS ) | | Revision of text | 2020 | Molina, M. ( BDTNS ) |
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Remarks
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http://www.maltergalleries.com/archives/auction99/dec1299.htm
«143. Mesopotamia, a lot of nineteen small clay tablets each with cuneiform, untranslated. Mostly in very fine condition, a few chipped and some repaired $2,000/19.»
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«Ancient Near East, southern Mesopotamia, Umma (modern Djokha), reign of Ibbi-Sin, ca. 2028 to 2004 BCE. A small terracotta administrative tabletof a rectangular form with planar peripheries and lightly-convex faces.
The tablet features fourteen lines of cuneiform text, which is impressed using a sharpened reed or stick just before being placed inside a kiln, as well as an official stamped seal along one lateral side. When translated, the script on the tablet records the numbers of fattened sheep in the year and that, "The priest of Inanna was chosen with the goat in Uruk." Size: 1.4" W x 1.7" H (3.6 cm x 4.3 cm).
Provenance: private Ventura County, California, USA collection; ex-private Los Angeles, California, USA.
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#132674
Condition: Minor abrasions and nicks to peripheries and faces, with light softening to some cuneiform characters, and minor encrustations within some cuneiform characters, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits throughout. Old inventory label and number on one peripheral side.»
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Auctioned at Malter Galleries, December 1999.
Auctioned at Artemis Gallery, June 6th, 2019.
New photos of the tablet sent by R. Kovacs, email 2019.07.01.
[M. Molina]
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1
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1 udu niga 4-kam us2
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2
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1 udu niga
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3
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dEn-ki ša3 Eriduki
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4
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lugal ku4-ra (=KWU 636)
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5
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u4 3-kam
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6
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ki In-ta-e3-a-/ta ba-zi
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r. 1
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giri3 dNanna-ma-ba / dub-sar
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2
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u3 Du11-ga ša3-tam
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3
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iti ezem-mah
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4
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mu en dInanna / Unuki-ga maš2-e / i3-pa3
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Seal i 1
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[...]
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2
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[lugal kala-ga]
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3
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⌈lugal⌉ ⌈Uri5⌉ki-ma
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4
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lugal an-[ub-da limmu2-ba]
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ii 1
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[dNanna-ma-ba]
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2
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[dub]-sar
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3
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dumu U2-na-ap-še-en
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4
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[arad2-zu]
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