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MLC 00677 (P295468)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | MLC 00677 |
|---|---|
| ID | P295468 |
| Museum no. | MLC 00677 |
| Collection | J. Pierpont Morgan Library Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Girsu (mod. Tello) |
| Coordinates | 31.5591, 46.1776 |
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 | 1(ban2) kasz 1(disz) ninda | 1 ban2 beer, 1 ninda |
| 2 | elam ra-gaba | Elam, the courier |
| 3 | pa-szim-e{ki#}-ta du | from Pašim-e |
| 4 | 2(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda | 2 sila₃ beer, 2 liters bread, |
| 5 | u-bar inim-inim-<ma>-da gen-na | I am the ubar of words. |
| 6 | 2(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda | 2 sila₃ beer, 2 liters bread, |
| 7 | a-mur-e3 | Āmur-e, |
| 8 | 2(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda | 2 sila₃ beer, 2 liters bread, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}nin-ezem | Ur-Ninezem, |
| 2 | 3(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda | 3 sila3 beer, 2 sila3, bread, |
| 3 | szu-ma-mi-tum | Šumamitum |
| 4 | [...] aga3-us2 4(disz) sila3 kasz ninda-ta | ... a soldier, 4 sila3 bread |
| 5 | aga3-us2 dumu uri5{ki}-me | we are soldiers, citizens of Ur. |
| 6 | 1(ban2) kasz 1(ban2) ninda szu-i3-li2 nu-banda3 | 10 litres of beer, 10 liters of bread for Šu-ilī the overseer. |
| 7 | [...] x x 5(disz) sila3 ninda | ... 5 sila3 bread |
| 8 | [...] x x | |
| 9 | [u4 n]-kam | day n |
| 10 | iti mu-szu-du7 | month: “mušudu, |
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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