Pre-Ur III Administrative Cuneiform Tablets in the British Museum. I. Texts from the Archives of Gudea's Dynasty.

The article provides new insights on the administration of the city of Girsu, an important city in third millennium BCE Mesopotamia. It provides the edition of 93 previously unpublished cuneiform tablets, dated to the reign of Gudea. The new evidence is framed in its historical context, in order to better appreciate the archives involved, their content, the main bureaus responsible for the management of goods, and the political contacts between Girsu and other city-states as emerging from the edited material.