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PPAC 5, 0012 (P315500)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 0012 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315500 |
| Museum no. | BM 012418 |
| 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)
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' | ki-la2-bi 1(disz) ma-na | its weight: 1 mana |
| 2' | 2(disz) gin2 nig2 gesztu ku3 2(u) la2 2(disz)-ta | 2 shekels, a gift, silver of 20 less 2 (shekels) each |
| 3' | a-ra2 1(disz)-kam | for the first time |
| 4' | 1(disz) e2-ba-an ku3 1(u)-ta | 1 Eban silver at 10 each, |
| 5' | ki-la2-bi 1/3(|NINDA2x(SZE.1(ASZ))|)?-sza | its weight: 1/3 rod |
| 6' | 4(disz) gin2 szu-tur ku3 2(u) la2 2(disz)-ta | 4 shekels small silver at 20 less 2 each, |
| 7' | 1(disz) gal ku3 7(disz)-ta | 1 large silver, 7 (shekels) each |
| 8' | ki-la2-bi 1/2(disz) ma-na | its weight: 1/2 mana |
| 9' | [a]-ra2 2(disz)-kam | 2nd time |
| 10' | [kasz]-de2-a lugal | King's beer |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [masz-da-ri]-a ezem-[mah] | mašdaria offering of the great festival |
| 2' | iti mu-szu-du7 | month: “mušudu, |
| 4' | zi-ga | booked out |
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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