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De la domestication au tabou 291 (P296611)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | De la domestication au tabou 291 |
|---|---|
| ID | P296611 |
| Museum no. | MLC 01971 |
| 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 | Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) |
| Coordinates | 31.6669, 45.8861 |
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' | [...] x | |
| 2' | [...]-kam | It is of |
| 3' | [...] x muszen tur sza3-gal-bi 1/3(disz) sila3 | ... small birds, their belly 1/3 sila3 |
| 4' | sze-bi 6(asz) gur | its barley: 6 gur |
| 5' | iti 6(disz)-kam | 6th month, |
| 6' | 3(u) ir7{muszen} sza3-gal-bi 5(disz) gin2 | 30 ravens, its belly 5 shekels |
| 7' | sze-bi 1(asz) 2(barig) 3(ban2) gur | its barley: 1 gur 2 barig 3 ban2 |
| 8' | 3(u) tu-gur8{muszen} sza3-gal-bi 2(disz) gin2-ta | 30 turtledoves, its belly 2 shekels each, |
| 9' | sze-bi 3(barig) gur | its barley: 3 barig; |
| 10' | iti 6(disz)-kam | 6th month, |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | szunigin 2(u) 6(asz) 3(ban2) sze gur lugal | total: 26 gur 3 ban2 barley, royal (measure), |
| 2' | sza3-gal szah2 u3 muszen na-ka3-<ab>-tum-ma tu-ru-na | The fowler, the pigeon and the bird of the nakaŋtum-demon, herdsman, |
| 3' | [...]-ki-du10 szabra | ...-kidu, the household manager |
| 4' | [...]-a-na# | ... of his ... |
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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