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Period |
Language |
Provenance |
Object |
Genre |
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Ur III
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Sumerian
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Unkn. Prov. |
Tablet |
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Date |
Dates Referenced |
Measurements |
Seal |
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0000 - 00 - 00 |
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75×X
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N |
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Owner |
Museum No. |
Accession No. |
Excavation No. |
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Hixenbaugh Ancient Art (gallery), New York, NY, USA
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Author of Transliteration
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| Transliteration of text | 2008 | Molina, M. ( BDTNS ) |
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Remarks
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Pictures sent by D.I. Owen (29.01.2008): the tablet will be auctioned by Randall Hixenbaugh (Hixenbaugh Ancient Art), who writes: “Formerly in the collection of William O. Vincent, acquired in 1941 from Gimbels department store, New York (old inventory number 439), accompanied by letter from Gimbels.”
[M. Molina]
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http://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/detail.cfm?itemnum=3063
2007.12.26
«An ancient Mesopotamian clay tablet inscribed with 21 lines of Sumerian cuneiform text listing various amounts of livestock expended (e.g., four fattened oxen, etc.). The totals are tallied in one line on the side of the tablet.
Third Dynasty of Ur, Ca. 2100-2000 BC.
Height: 2 7/8 in. (7.5 cm).
Back restored, not affecting text.
Confer: Spar, Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art I: Tablets, Cones, and Bricks of the Third and Second Millennia B.C., (New York, 1988), text no. 8, pl. 7.
Formerly in the collection of William O. Vincent, acquired in 1941 from Gimbels department store, New York (old inventory number 439).
Inv#: 3063
Sold”.»
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1
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[10]+5 gu4 niga
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2
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4 gu4 u2
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3
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2 udu niga sig5
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4
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16 udu niga sig5 us2
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5
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3 maš2-gal niga sig5 us2
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6
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1 munusaš2-gar3 niga sig5 us2
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7
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2 udu niga 3-kam us2
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8
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2 u8 niga 3-kam us2
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9
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1 udu niga 4-kam us2
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10
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1 maš2-gal niga 4-kam us2
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11
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⌈50?⌉+1 udu niga-x
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12
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2 maš2-gal niga
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13
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5 udu niga gu4-e us2-sa
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14
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26 maš2-gal niga gu4-e us2-sa
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15
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6 munusaš2-gar3 niga
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r. 1
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50?+1? udu u2
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2
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37 maš2-gal u2
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3
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2 sila4 gaba
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4
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2 munusaš2-gar3-gaba
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5
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3 sila4-⌈bar6-bar6?⌉ (=⌈UD?⌉.UD)
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le.ed. 1
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19 ⌈gu4⌉ 256 udu ša3 kišib-ba
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