What it's used for here
CSIC database of Ur III administrative texts, online since 2002, hosted at CESGA since February 2025. May 2026 figures: 105,187 documents catalogued, 75,818 with transliterations (70,063 published, 5,755 unpublished or auctioned), 1,350,035 lines; the page estimates at least 120,000 Ur III tablets in museums and private collections plus an unknown number in the Iraq Museum. Copyright Manuel Molina; no open licence stated. Used for the size of the Ur III backlog.
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Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
bdtns.cesga.es · fetched 31 Oct 2026
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Cite it
Manuel Molina (2026). Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS): About. https://bdtns.cesga.es/index.php?p=about
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