Ontario 2, 145 (P209503)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Ontario 2, 145 |
|---|---|
| ID | P209503 |
| Museum no. | ROM 925.062.101 |
| Collection | Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) |
| Coordinates | 31.6669, 45.8861 |
English translation
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| Line | English |
|---|---|
| obverse 1 | 8 workmen for 40 days, |
| obverse 2 | the labor: 320 days, |
| obverse 3 | at the water(works) stationed, |
| obverse 4 | the field “Amar-kiši,” |
| obverse 5 | the field “Center,” |
| obverse 6 | the field “Royal waterway,” |
| obverse 7 | water poured, |
| obverse 8 | intake of the out-waterway cut off, |
| reverse 1 | from the intake of the out-waterway |
| reverse 2 | to field “Amar-kiši” ... leveled; |
| reverse 3 | foreman: ..., |
| reverse 4 | via ..., |
| reverse 5 | under seal of Egalesi, |
| reverse 6 | year following: “Šu-Suen, the king, Martu wall erected.” |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | 8(disz) [gurusz] u4# 4(u)-sze3 | |
| 2 | a2#-bi# u4 5(gesz2) 2(u) | |
| 3 | a-da gub-ba | |
| 4 | a-sza3 amar-{gesz}kiszi17 | |
| 5 | a-sza3 muru13 | |
| 6 | a-sza3 i7 lugal-ka | |
| 7 | a-de2-a | |
| 8 | ka i7 e3-ka ku5-ra2 | |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ka# i7 e3-ta | |
| 2 | a-sza3 amar#-[{gesz}kiszi17] x-da-sze3 [szu]-ur3-ra | |
| 3 | ugula [...] x | |
| 4 | giri3 [...] | |
| 5 | kiszib3# [e2-gal-e]-si# | |
| 6 | mu# [us2-sa] {d#}szu-{d}suen lugal#-[e] bad3# mar-tu mu#-du3 | |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | e2-gal-e-si | |
| 2 | dub-sar | |
| 3 | dumu lu2-{d}szara2 | |
| 4 | sa12-du5-ka | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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