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Nisaba 07, 42 (P283846)

Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE

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Designation	Nisaba 07, 42
ID	P283846
Museum no.	BM 025179
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

Transliteration (ATF)

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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	4(u) 3(disz) gurusz	43 male laborers
2	sza3-bi-ta	therefrom:
3	1(u) 5(disz) en hun-ga2	15 hirelings,
4	1(u) ma2# sze	10 barge barley
5	giri3# ur-{gesz}gigir	via Ur-gigir
6	x x x
7	[...] x x u3 su-[ga?]	... and the swamp(?)
8	1(disz) engar erin2#-na#	1 ploughman, foreman:
reverse
1	x gu-za-la2	x, the throne bearer;
2	3(disz) ma2 [sze?]	3 barge(?) of barley
3	ki ur-{gesz}[gigir-ta]	from Ur-gigir
4	($ blank space $) 3(u) la2 1(disz) x	(total:) 29 .
5	zi-ga	booked out
6	1(u) 4(disz) nig2-gal2-la	14 nig2-galla-measures,
7	kiszib3 amar-sun2	under seal of Amar-sun

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