8820
| Description (Catalog Card): | Tablet. 2 fragments of large tablet in fine writing.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | SM as 8813 8813=Destruction dump or SE face of long mud-brick wall. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Clay2 |
| U Number: | 8820 |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Writing and Record Keeping >> Tablet |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Culture/Period: | Old Babylonian |
| Description (Modern): | Collective Inana B/Enlil A |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired |
| Museum Number (SL British Museum): | SL |
| Tablet ID Number: | P346604 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
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) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ur Excavations Texts VI.3: Literary and Religious texts | Ur Excavations Texts VI.3: Literary and Religious texts | 2006 | Schaffer, A., Ludwig, M.C. | (none) |
| Ur Excavations Texts VII: Middle Babylonian Legal Documents and Other Texts | Ur Excavations Texts VII: Middle Babylonian Legal Documents and Other Texts | 1974 | Gurney, O.R. | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:254 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:254 | (none) |
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