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PPAC 5, 0010 (P315498)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 0010 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315498 |
| Museum no. | BM 012416 |
| 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 col 1' | ||
| 1' | e2 {d}amar-{d}suen | the house of Amar-Suena |
| 2' | 2(gesz2) 3(u) 5(disz) erin2 | 185 labor-troops, |
| 3' | 7(disz) ug3-IL2 | 7 porters, |
| 4' | [...]-bi 4(disz) 2/3(disz) | ... its 4 2/3 |
| 5' | [...]{ki} | ..., |
| 6' | [...] erin2 | ... troops |
| obverse col 2' | ||
| 1' | e2 {d}nin-gir2-[su] | the temple of Ningirsu |
| 2' | u3 esz3 didli [...] | and the numerous shrines |
| 3' | 3(gesz2) 2(u) 5(disz) [erin2] | 185 labor-troops |
| 4' | 3(u) [ug3-IL2] | 30, porter |
| 5' | e2 [...] | The temple of |
| reverse col 1 | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | 2(u) 6(disz) [gurusz] | 26 male laborers |
| 3' | 2(disz) gurusz SIG7-a | 2 male workers, yellow-green, |
| 4' | sza3 ki-es3-sa2[{ki}] | in Ki'essa |
| 5' | 2(u) 7(disz) gurusz | 27 male laborers |
| 6' | 1(u) la2 1(disz@t) gurusz SIG7-a | 9 yellow male laborers, |
| 7' | sza3 ki-nu-nir[{ki}] | in Kinunir |
| 8' | 1(gesz2) 4(u) 4(disz) gurusz | 104 male laborers, |
| 9' | 1(u) 3(disz) gurusz SIG7-a | 13 yellow male laborers, |
| reverse col 2 | ||
| 1' | [sza3] gu2-ab-ba{ki} | in Guabba |
| 2' | [...] 1(gesz'u) 1(gesz2) 2(u) 1(disz) gurusz | ... 121 male laborers |
| 3' | [sipa] udu gukkal-me | shepherd of fat-tailed sheep |
| 4' | 4(u) 1(disz) gurusz | 41 male laborers, |
| 5' | <sza3> gir2-su{ki} | in Girsu |
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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