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PPAC 5, 0023 (P315512)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 0023 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315512 |
| Museum no. | BM 012430 |
| 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' | 3(disz) geme2-[...] | 3 (mana wool for) Geme- |
| 2' | 1(disz) 1/2(disz) geme2-[...] | (and) 1 1/2 (for) Geme- |
| 3' | 2(disz) [...] | 2 ..., |
| 4' | 1(disz) 1/2(disz) geme2-[...] | (and) 1 1/2 (for) Geme- |
| 5' | 3(disz) geme2-[...] | 3 (mana wool for) Geme- |
| 6' | 3(disz) ba-[...] | 3 (mana wool for) Ba- |
| 7' | 3(disz) du11-ga-[...] | 3 (mana wool for) Duga- |
| 8' | 3(disz) geme2-asz-asz [...] | 3 mana wool for Geme-aš-... |
| 9' | 3(disz) geme2-e2-[...] | 3 (mana wool for) Geme-e... |
| 10' | 3(disz) igi-la2-[i3-gi4] | 3 (mana wool for) Igila-igi |
| 11' | 1(disz) tug2 nin-lu2-sa6-[sa6] | 1 textile, Nin-lusasa |
| 12' | 3(disz) tug2 nin-ensi2-[iri-na?] | 3 textiles for Nin-ensi-irina(?) |
| 13' | 3(disz) <tug2> nin-ki-ur5-sa6 | 3 <garments> for Nin-kursa |
| 14' | 3(disz) sa6-[...] | 3 (mana wool for) Sa- |
| 15' | 3(disz) KA-[...] | 3 (mana wool for) KA- |
| 16' | [n] 2(disz) geme2-[...] | n+2 (mana wool for) Geme- |
| obverse col 2' | ||
| 1' | dumu geme2-[...] | son of Geme- |
| 2' | 1(disz) geme2 usz-[bar] | 1 female weaver |
| 3' | dumu nin-he2-[gal2] | son of Nin-hegal |
| 4' | iti ezem-{d}ba-[ba6] | month: “Festival-of-Baba,’ |
| 5' | dumu egir tu-[da ...] | son born after birth ... |
| 6' | szunigin 2(disz) gurusz 4(disz) ma-[na-ta-ta] | total: 2 male laborers, 4 mana each |
| 7' | szunigin 1(disz) gurusz 2(u) [n ma-na] | total: 1 male laborer 20 minas |
| 8' | szunigin 1(u) la2 1(disz@t) [gurusz-ta] | total: 9 male laborers each |
| 9' | szunigin 2(u) 6(disz) geme2 [...] | total: 26 female workers ... |
| 10' | szunigin 3(disz) dumu [...] | total: 3 sons ... |
| 11' | szunigin 7(disz) dumu [...] | total: 7 children ... |
| 12' | tug2-bi [...] | Its garment |
| 13' | siki-bi [...] | its wool ... |
| 14' | geme2 [...] | ... female laborers |
| 15' | ugula [...] | foreman: |
| 16' | nu-banda3 [...] | the overseer |
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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