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Ur III
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Sumerian
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AS07 - 11 - 00 |
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Saint Bernard Catholic Seminary (Rochester, NY) (dispersed), Unknown, Unknown
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St. Bernard 01
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Author of Transliteration
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| Transliteration of text | 1991 | Sigrist, M. ( Rochester 097 ) | | 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 42.
The information on this Lot provided in Sotheby's catalogue was the following:
http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4269C
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2003/fine-books-and-manuscripts-including-americana-n07914/lot.42.html
«Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Sale: N07914 | Location: New York.
Auction Dates: Session 1: Fri, 20 Jun 03 10:15 AM.
LOT 42.
Property of the Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School.
Cuneiform Tablets.
8,000–12,000 USD
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 36,000 USD
Measuerementes:
N/A
Description:
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Fifty-four (54 ) items in all, including 49 clay tablets, 3 figurines, 1 cylinder seal, and 1 stone cylinder. The tablets cover a wide range, from possibly Sargonic (ca. 2340-2150 bc) to Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1600 bc) and Neo-Babylonian or Persian (ca. 539-330 bc) periods. They are administrative in nature (concerning workers, cereals, linen, small cattle, leather working, e.g.), except for one school exercise. Most of the Old Babylonian tablets are typical administrative texts, concerning small cattle and such. But there are also pieces of three Old Babylonian letters, a fragment of a prism, and some scholastic exercises and lists. One administrative text dates to Ammiditana, or Later Old Babylonian, mid-seventeenth century bc. The figurines are difficult to date, one possibly being Syrian (ca. 2000-1000 bc), the others dating to the first millennium bc or later. The stone cylinder fragment is probably Ur III (2112-2004) bearing part of a royal inscription; the cylinder seal is Early Dynastic III (ca. 2500-2340). Comprising: i) Nearly complete Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning sheep and lambs, in good condition. ii) Nearly complete sealed Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning male sheep, in fair condition. iii) Complete sealed Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning lambs, in good condition. iv) Nearly complete, possibly sealed, Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning male sheep, in fair to good condition. v) Complete, sealed Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning male sheep, in fine condition. Reign of Ammiditana, ca. 1684-47 bc. vi) Nearly complete, sealed Old Babylonian administrative tablet, in good condition. Reign of Abi-eshuh, ca. 1700 bc. vii) Repaired fragment of large Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning oxen(?) inter alia, in fair condition. viii) Nearly complete sealed Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning silver payment, in good condition. ix) Fragment of Old Babylonian administrative tablet, in fair condition. x) Incomplete, sealed Old Babylonian administrative tablet, in fair condition. xi) Complete, sealed Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning barley, in fair condition. xii) Fragment of Old Babylonian administrative tablet, in fair condition. xiii) Incomplete Old Babylonian administrative tablet, in poor condition. xiv) Incomplete, disintegrating Old Babylonian administrative tablet, in poor condition. xv) Incomplete, sealed Old Babylonian envelope, in poor condition. xvi) Small, incomplete Old Babylonian administrative tablet, with part of envelope attached, in good condition. xvii) Nearly complete, disintegrating Old Babylonian administrative tablet, in poor condition. xviii) Nearly complete, sealed Old Babylonian administrative tablet, in fair condition. xix) Incomplete Old Babylonian administrative tablet, in poor condition. xx) Incomplete Old Babylonian administrative tablet, in fair condition. xxi) Incomplete Old Babylonian administrative tablet, in poor to fair condition. xxii) Complete Old Babylonian Letter, in poor to fair condition. xxiii) Fragment of Old Babylonian Letter, in good condition. xxiv) Incomplete Old Babylonian Letter, in poor condition. xxv) Fragment of Old Babylonian lexical or scholastic list inscribed on a prism with central hole, in good condition. xxvi) Complete lentoid Old Babylonian scholastic exercise, in good condition. xxvii) Fragment of lentoid Old Babylonian scholastic exercise (?), in poor condition. xxviii) Incomplete Old Babylonian scholastic list of divine names, in fair condition. xxix) Complete, sealed tag, with string holes where it was attached to some commodity. Appears to have impressions from more than one seal. One has lion attacking stag under a winged disk, and has an Aramaic inscription. The other seal has a king facing a sitting lion under a winged disk. Achaemenid/ Persian period (ca. 539-330 bc). In good condition. xxx) Incomplete administrative tablet listing quantities and names in two columns per side. Possibly Old Babylonian (2000-1600), but lacking beginning and end. Otherwise in good to fine condition. xxxi) Incomplete (large portion of Old Babylonian verse missing) administrative tablet. Labeled "Uruk. Cyrus year 3," which, if correct, would place it ca. 537 bc. In good to fine condition but for missing section. xxxii) Incomplete (large part of Old Babylonian verse missing) administrative tablet. Labeled "Cambyses year 7," which, if correct, would place it ca. 523 bc. In good condition but for missing section. xxxiii) Fragment of large tablet or brick, sealed. Seal impression has bull facing. Difficult to date, but likely to be first millennium bc. May be administrative or legal. In good condition. xxxiv) Incomplete administrative tablet listing quantities and names. In fair condition. Difficult to date. Old Babylonian or later (ca. 2000-500 bc). xxxv) Top portion of clay figurine, of a deity in tall headdress (Syrian?) carrying a child or animal in left arm. Difficult to date. In fair condition. xxxvi) Large, incomplete administrative text listing personal names with titles or patronyms. Difficult to date; Old Babylonian or later. In fair to good condition. xxxvii) Part of head and shoulders of leonine(?) or man-bull figurine, date unknown, in fair condition. Damage to head. xxxviii) Several pieces of a sealed Old Babylonian envelope, in poor condition. xxxix) Fragment of Old Babylonian (?) administrative tablet in poor condition., with repairs. xxxx) Fragment of tablet of unknown nature, in fair condition. xxxxi) Fragment (head portion) of zoomorphic figurine in dark grey clay and covered with small stamp and cylinder seal impressions. First millennium bc or later. In good condition. xxxxii) Complete Ur III (2112-2004 bc) administrative tablet concerning barley, in fine condition but for some salt formations. xxxxiii) Complete Ur III administrative tablet concerning receipt of payment in barley, in fine condition. xxxxiv) Complete tablet with scholastic exercise, probably Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1600 bc), in good condition. xxxxv) Complete administrative tablet, either Neo-Babylonian or Persian (ca. 1000-330 bc), in good condition., but for missing section of Old Babylonian verse. xxxxvi) Nearly complete, sealed Ur III administrative tablet concerning quantity of substance related to leatherworking (KA-LUM), in good condition. xxxxvii) Incomplete, sealed Ur III administrative tablet concerning linen, in fair condition. xxxxviii) Complete scholastic exercise tablet. Date uncertain, but Old Babylonian or later (2000-330 bc), in fair to good condition. xxxxix) Complete Old Babylonian administrative tablet concerning workers for various overseers, in good to fine condition. l) Complete tablet listing amounts of cereals for recipients. Neo-Babylonian (ca. 1000-539 bc), in good condition. li) Complete cylinder seal, shell, bearing contest frieze with heroes and horned animals fighting. Early Dynastic III (ca. 2500-2340 bc). In fair condition. lii) Complete sealed Ur III administrative tablet concerning hire of 52 workers for one day, in good to fine condition. Seal belonged to a scribe. Year 3* of King Shulgi (2093 bc). liii) Small, complete Ur III or Sargonic (2340-2150 bc) administrative tablet concerning small cattle, in good condition. liv) A fragment of a white stone (chalk, limestone?) cylinder with an Ur III (2112-2004) royal inscription, in poor to fair condition.»
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13 tug2guz-za 4-kam us2
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ki-la2-bi 56 ⅔ ma-na
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6 tug2guz-za gen ki-la2-bi 22 ⅓ ma-na siki kur-ra giš.gagarig2 ak
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3 tug2sag-uš-bar
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ki-la2-bi 10 ⅔ ma-na
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2 tug2uš-bar ki-la2-bi 6 ⅔ ma-na 5 gin2 siki kur-ra siki peš5-a
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7 tug2u2 kal
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r. 1
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ki-la2-bi 25 ⅔ ma-na
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7 tug2 mug ga
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ki-la2-bi 24 ma-na tug2 ki-la2 tag-ga
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ki Šeš-sig5-ta
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Ur-E11-e in-la2
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Ur-dA-šar2 šu ba-ti
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kišib I3-kal-la
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iti Pa4-u2-e mu hu-uh2-<nu-ri>ki ba-hul
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