Abstract
This contribution presents a copy, transliteration and translation of a Neo-Sumerian cuneiform tablet from the Ur III administration. The document comes from Umma and is kept in the Archaeological Museum of as-Sulaimānīyah (Iraqi Kurdistan).
Acknowledgement
I would like to thank Kamal Rashid, director of the Department of Archaeology, and Hashim Hama, director of the Sulaymaniyah Museum, for their kind permission to publish this tablet. I also owe many thanks to C. Lecompte for his very useful comments on an earlier draft.
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T-0402 SM4563 obv. (photo by A. Kamil).

T-0402 SM4563 rev. (photo by A. Kamil).

T-0402 SM4563 left edge (photo by A. Kamil).

Copy obv. by A. Kamil.

Copy rev. by A. Kamil.
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- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Siedlungskammer Kilikien
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- In Defense of Nebuchadnezzar II the Warrior
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- Filling in the Facts
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Siedlungskammer Kilikien
- A Comparative Stratigraphy of Cilicia
- Observations on John Garstang’s Excavations at Kazanlı Höyük (Cilicia) in 1937
- In Defense of Nebuchadnezzar II the Warrior
- A New Sale Document of the Ur III Period in the Sulaymaniyah Museum
- Ḫatti and Ḫattuša
- Determination in the Anatolian Hieroglyphic Script of the Empire and Transitional Period
- Filling in the Facts
- The Account of Nabû-šuma-iškun Revisited