Media Archive - Connecting Our Collections With Yours

More like this

Expert search

Cuneiform Inscriptions: UM 1

Title

Cuneiform Inscriptions: UM 1

Date

Ur III, ca. 21st cen. BCE. Amar-Suen, year 9

Description

Cuneiform tablet. Collection # UM 1. Publ. # SET 283. Purchased from E. J. Banks, 1913. Measurements (HxWxTh): 40 x 38 x 14 mm. Condition: Intact; baked? Description: Receipt for two reed mats. Period: Ur III, ca. 21st cen. BCE. Provenience: Umma? Date: Amar-Suen, year 9. Seal Impression: Sealed by Lu-Ninšubur, son of Ur-gigir.

Annotation

Transliteration: obv. 1. 2 kid-šú*-má 2. ki-lá-bi ½ sar 3. má-zì-da-šè 4. ki Ur-dŠul-pa- è lo.e. (blank) rev. 5. kišib Lú-dNin- šubur (blank space of two lines) 6. šà bal-a 7. mu en ga-eš 8. ki ba-un
Translation: 1-4. Two reed mats to cover a boat, their size ½ s a r, for a flour(-transport) boat, (in the) place of Ur-Šulpae. 5. seal of Lu-Ninšubur. 6-8. Within the term of office; year the high priest (of Nanna of) Ga-eš was installed. seal 1. Lú-dNin-šubur 2. dub-sar 3. dumu Ur-gišgigir 4. mu-sar dŠára 1. Lu-Ninšubur 2. scribe 3. son of Ur-gigir 4. scribe of (the god) Šara

Extent

40 x 38 x 14 mm

Physical Form

Tablets

Type of Resource

Three Dimensional Object

Note

obv. Line 1: Presumably, the word intended is gi k i d - m á -š ú - a, “reed mat to cover a boat.”
Line 4: This Ur-Šulpae may be the same as Ur-Šulpae, son of Ur-Ištaran, who, along with his brothers and father, was frequently involved in š à b a l a - a transactions at Umma, according to J. Huehnergard and T. Sharlach, in “A š à b a l a - a tablet,” JCS 52 (2000), pp. 123-5. The tablet (from an unidentified collection) published and discussed in that article records the receipt of reeds “within the b a l a” by Lugale-bansa, also a son of Ur-Ištaran, and brother of Ur-Šulpae. Since Lugale-bansa was typically engaged in supplying reeds and wood for making boats, the authers surmise that the reeds which were the object of that transaction were meant for a boat – as is the case with the reed mats recorded by UM 1.
rev. Line 5: Lu-Ninšubur, son of Ur-gigir, sealed MVN 14, 316, a record of reeds and bitumen from Ur-Šulpae (perhaps the same Ur-Šulpae as in UM 1), with the same seal as he used on UM 1; he impressed a different seal on MVN 14, 512, written several years earlier. The impressions of both seals used by Lu-Ninšubur are catalogued and illustrated by Rudolf Mayr as nos. 363.1-2 in his dissertation, “The Seal Impressions of Ur III Umma” (Leiden, 1997); it was seal no. 363.2 which was impressed on UM 1 (SET 283), which should be added to Mayr's list of impressions of that seal. I am indebted to M. Sigrist for completion of lines 3-4 of the seal legend and for the references to the texts in MVN 14.

Language

sux

Physical location

University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books. http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/

Local identifier

UM1OBV
UM1REV
UM1REVSI

purl

http://purl.umn.edu/101467

Access conditions

Use of this image may be governed by U.S. and international copyright laws. Please contact Special Collections and Rare Books for permission to publish this image. http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/

Categories:

Cuneiform Inscriptions

Search all collections...
Ames Library of South Asia
--> General Collection
--> Journal of Indian Art
--> Stereoscopic Images of India
Andersen Horticultural Library
--> Minneapolis Seedswomen Catalogs
Bell Museum of Natural History
--> Francis Lee Jaques Collection
--> General Collection
Botanical Images
--> Botanical Images from the Collections of the University Libraries
Business Library
--> Historical Annual Reports
Charles Babbage Institute
--> Association for Computing Machinery
--> Burroughs Corporation
--> Control Data Corporation
--> Fragile Publications
--> Oral History Collections
Children's Literature Research Collections
--> Beadle's Weekly
--> The Oz Collection
Department of American Indian Studies
--> Ojibwe People's Online Dictionary
East Asian Library
--> Manzanar Free Press
--> Ming Gazetteer Images
Entomology, Fisheries and Wildlife Library
First Flights
--> High Altitude Plastic Balloon Project
--> Images of Ballooning from the Piccard, Scholl, and Winzen Collections
Givens Collection of African American Literature
--> African American Literature
--> Penumbra Theatre Playbills
Immigration History Research Center
--> Arab American Collection
--> Armenian American Collection
--> Belarusan American Collection
--> Croatian American Collection
--> Czech/Bohemian American Collection
--> Digitizing Immigrant Letters
--> Estonian American Collection
--> Finnish American Collection
--> Foundational Collection of Immigration Oral Histories
--> General Collection
--> Greek American Collection
--> Hugo Skrastins Papers
--> Hungarian American Collection
--> Italian American Collection
--> Latvian American Collection
--> Polish American Collection
--> Rev. Kenneth Dexter Miller Papers, 1887-1968
--> Romanian American Collection
--> Slovak American Collection
--> Slovenian American Collection
--> Twin Cities Ukrainian Folk Ballet and Chorus Collection
--> Ukrainian American Collection
--> Zdenka Rypka Papers
James Ford Bell Library
--> Historical Maps
--> Images Collection
--> John Gabriel Stedman Archive and Book Manuscript
--> Spanish American Political Texts
Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies
--> AIDS Poster Collection
--> GLBT Pride Poster Collection
John R. Borchert Map Library
--> City Maps
--> Minnesota Maps
--> Plat Books
Kautz Family YMCA Archives
--> Emma Young Dickson Papers
--> Foreign Secretary Reports from China
--> Image Collection
--> Trench and Camp Newspaper
--> Video and Audio Collection
--> YMCA of the USA Yearbooks and Directories, 1854-2002
Learning Resources Center
--> Chinese Opera Performances
--> Classical Urdu Poetry
--> EngL 1301W Introduction to Multicultural American Literature
--> EngL 3001W Textual Interpretation, Analysis, and Investigation
--> EngL 3003W Historical Survey of British Literatures I
--> EngL 3007 Shakespeare: Rehearsing the Imagination
--> EngW 3102 Intermediate Fiction Writing: The Short Story
--> EngW 5606 / Jour 5606W Literary Aspects of Journalism
--> Independent and Distance Learning
--> Introduction to Punjabi
--> Introduction to Pushto
--> Mus 1001 Fundamentals of Music
--> PubH 3040 Dying and Death in Contemporary Society
--> South Asia Language Archive
Literary Manuscripts Collections
Magrath Library
--> Minnesota Rivers, United States Parks Service
--> Minnesota Soil Survey Collection
Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station
--> Image Collection
Minnesota Geological Survey
--> Minnesota Geological Survey Maps
Music Library
--> Hymnal Books
Northwest Architectural Archives
--> American Terra Cotta Company
--> Edwin H. Lundie Papers
--> Ellerbe Architects Papers Collection
--> Forecast Public Art Archives
--> John H. Howe Papers
--> Larson and McLaren Papers
--> Leroy S. Buffington Papers
--> Liebenberg and Kaplan Papers
--> Minneapolis Architecture 1848-1908
--> Toltz, King and Day Papers
--> William Channing Whitney Collection
--> William Gray Purcell Papers
Performing Arts Archives
--> Guthrie Theater Archives
--> Minnesota Dance Pioneer Oral History Project
--> Minnesota Orchestra
--> Scenic Collections
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
--> Image Collection
School of Public Health
--> James A. Hamilton Collection
Social Welfare History Archives
--> Addict in the Street
--> American Social Health Association Records 1905-1990
--> National Conference of Social Work Portraits
--> Social Work Yearbooks, 1929-1960
Special Collections and Rare Books
--> Arthur Kleiner Collection
--> Cuneiform Inscriptions
--> Eugene J. McCarthy Collection
--> Fifty Original Leave from Medieval Manuscripts - Otto Ege Collection
--> Friedrich Wachtsmuth Archive, 1929-1938
--> Individual Medieval Manuscript Leaves
--> Joseph S. Mertle Collection on the History of Photomechanics
--> Papyri and Ostraka Collection
--> Postcard Collection
--> Rare Books and Manuscripts
--> Sherlock Holmes Collections
University of Minnesota Archives
--> Campus Maps and Blueprints
--> Cass Gilbert Collection - Campus Plans
--> Cereal Rust Laboratory Records, 1823, 1946-2007
--> Department of Plant Pathology and Physiology Records, 1918-2007
--> Elvin C. Stakman papers, 1918-1973
--> Helen Hart Papers, 1917-1953
--> John Gibler Papers, 1890-2006
--> Junior F. Hayden Botanical Photograph Collection
--> Moses Barron Papers, 1911-1978
--> Norman E. Borlaug Papers, 1930-2006
--> Photograph Collection
--> University of Minnesota Gopher Yearbooks
--> Video and Audio Collection
University of Minnesota Extension Service
--> Image Collection
University of Minnesota Law Library
--> Photograph Collection
Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine
--> History and Development of Caesarean Section, Dr. Robert Patterson Harris (1822-1899)
--> James H. Stuart Letters
--> Medical Receipt Books
War Posters and Postcards
--> Propagnada
--> Rationing and conservation
--> Recreation
--> Religion
--> Views
--> War finance
--> War Posters and Postcards
--> Wochenspruch
Wilson Library
--> Journal Humoristique

Search the archive: in in in in	Limit search to the following collections: