7045A
| Description (Catalog Card): | No catalog card exists for this object: U.7033-U.7064 were duplicated with the duplicates assigned to tablets from Season 5. They were originally part of U.7839, a large group of tablets found in Area SM (Jacobsen AJA 57:128). They were later given individual numbers that were believed to fall between Seasons 4 and 5, but ended up duplicating numbers assigned to objects from Season 4. The duplicates have been given the subletter A (or additional subletter where multiple objects were indicated on the original card) in this database while the original object from the catalog card retains the number without subletter (or the original subletters assigned on the card). |
| Text Genre: | Administrative and Legal |
| Dates Referenced: | Shulgi 40 or 41(?) |
| U Number: | 7045A1 |
| Object Type: | Writing and Record Keeping >> Tablet |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Museum: | The National Museum of Iraq 2 |
| Culture/Period: | Ur III |
| Description (Modern): | Cuneiform tablet fragment |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired |
| Tablet ID Number: | P138913 |
| [1] U.7033-U.7064 were duplicated with the duplicates assigned to tablets from Season 5. They were originally part of U.7839, a large group of tablets found in Area SM (Jacobsen AJA 57:128). They were later given individual numbers that were believed to fall between Seasons 4 and 5, but ended up duplicating numbers assigned to objects from Season 4. The duplicates have been given the subletter A (or additional subletter where multiple objects were indicated on the original card) in this database while the original object from the catalog card retains the number without subletter (or the original subletters assigned on the card). |
| [2] Returned to Iraq by the Penn Museum |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| SM | The meaning of this excavation area abbreviation is not clear, but its location is known to be immediately southeast of the giparu (KP) extending to the ehursag (HT) in the east. Badly preserved remains of a building were found here, distinct from the giparu. On a tentative reconstruction of the ground plan, Woolley suggests the original structure measured some 35x40 meters. The building remains date to the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period and many small tablets recording business transactions were found within. T.C. Mitchell, editing the UE 7 volume published after Woolley's death, notes that many of these tablets actually date to the reigns of Shulgi and Amar-Sin. According to Woolley, some of the tablets were twisted together as if in the process of being recycled to reuse their clay for new tablets. He also suggests, very tentatively and based only on a few minor and out-of-place bricks, that this building was originally a temple to Nin-Ezen. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ur Excavations Texts IX: Economic Texts from the Third Dynasty | Ur Excavations Texts IX: Economic Texts from the Third Dynasty | 1976 | Loding, D. | (none) |
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