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UET 5, 0857 (P283695)
Administrative, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UET 5, 0857 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283695 |
| Museum no. | IM 057599? |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) |
| Coordinates | 30.9607, 46.1063 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | _gid2 & da & bur3 sza3 i7-da & bur3 da i7-da & sahar_ | a length adjacent to a well in the river, adjacent to the watercourse, earth |
| 2 | _za3# & & GAN2_ & & {d}en-ki | the border of the field of Enki |
| 3 | x esz & _4(u) & 1(disz) kusz3 & 2(disz) kusz3 & 7(disz) 1/2(disz) sar nu-kin_ | ... eš: 41 cubits; 2 cubit, 7 1/2 sar not established; |
| 4 | x & _4(u) & 1(disz) kusz3 & 2(disz) kusz3 & 2(iku) 1/2(iku) 3(u) sar GAN2 kin til-la_ | ... 40° 1 cubit 2 cubits 2 1/2 iku 30 sar field, finished work, |
| 5 | [x] & _4(u) & 1(disz) kusz3 & 2(disz) kusz3 & 2(iku) 1/2(iku) GAN2 1(u) sar_ | ... 4½ cubits, 2‘cubits’ 2 1/2 iku surface area, 10 sar |
| 6 | [i]-na & _iri{ki}_ & kur-hi-a-nu-um | in the city of the land Ḫianum |
| 7 | [x] & _4(u) & 1(disz) kusz3 & 2(disz) kusz3 & 2(iku) GAN2_ | ... 40° 1 cubit 2 cubits 2 iku field |
| 8 | [i-na] _iri{ki}_ & ba-gan-ka-a-a | in the city of Bagan |
| 9 | [x] & [x] & _1(disz) kusz3 & 2(disz) kusz3 & 1(esze3) GAN2 3(u) 2(disz) 1/2(disz) sar_ | ... 1 cubit 2 cubits 1 eše3 surface area, 32 1/2 sar |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | nam-ka-ru-um szer7-da{ki} | the prize of Šerda, |
| 2 | _2/3(disz) danna2 1(disz) us2 2(u) 6(disz) gid2_ | 2/3 league, 1 length, 26 sar, |
| 3 | _iti# szu-numun-a_ | The month of Dumuzi |
| 4 | _mu i7 buranun-na mu-ba-al_ | the year in which he dug the Euphrates. |
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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