BM Messenger 247 (P107126)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BM Messenger 247 |
|---|---|
| ID | P107126 |
| Museum no. | BM 020407 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Girsu (mod. Tello) |
| Coordinates | 31.5591, 46.1776 |
English translation
Via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI (reuse with citation)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| obverse 1 | Basket-of-tablets: |
| obverse 2 | accounts of |
| obverse 3 | Lu-Ningirsu, son of Ikalla, |
| obverse 4 | Ur-Ningirsu, son of Ur-Baba, |
| obverse 5 | Atu, |
| reverse 1 | Utu-bara, son of Amu, |
| reverse 2 | Lubimu, |
| reverse 3 | Agi |
| reverse 4 | Ur-egal, |
| reverse 5 | Ur-guena, |
| reverse 6 | Alla-dimu |
| reverse 7 | Ur-Baba, son of Ur-Nanše, |
| reverse 8 | ARAD-Baba, son of Lugalsaga, |
| reverse 9 | year: “The chair of Enlil was fashioned.” |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | pisan-dub-ba | |
| 2 | nig2-ka9-ak | |
| 3 | lu2-{d}nin-gir2-su dumu i3-kal-la | |
| 4 | ur-{d}nin-gir2-su dumu ur-{d}ba-ba6 | |
| 5 | a-tu | |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | {d}utu-bar-ra dumu a-mu | |
| 2 | lu2-bi-mu | |
| 3 | a-gi4 | |
| 4 | ur-e2-gal | |
| 5 | ur-gu2-en-na | |
| 6 | al-la-di-mu | |
| 7 | ur-{d}ba-ba6 dumu ur-{d}nansze | |
| 8 | ARAD2-{d}ba-ba6 dumu lugal-sa6-ga | |
| 9 | mu gu-za {d}en-lil2-la2 ba-dim2 | |
Sources & licences
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- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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