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PPAC 5, 0031 (P315553)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 0031 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315553 |
| Museum no. | BM 012489 |
| 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 | 3(asz) gu2 2(u) 6(disz) ma-na siki | 3 talents 26 mana wool, |
| 2 | a-ra2 1(disz)-kam | for the first time |
| 3 | 3(disz) gin2 siki | 3 shekels of wool |
| 4 | a-ra2 2(disz)-kam | 2nd time |
| 5 | ki ur-dam-ta | from Urdam |
| 6 | ur-{d}ba-ba6 lu2 sanga | Ur-Baba, the temple administrator |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | szu ba-ti | received. |
| 2 | iti ezem-{d}szul-gi | month: “Festival-of-Šulgi,’ |
| 3 | mu {d}amar-{d}suen lugal ur-bi2-lum{ki} mu-hul! | year: “Amar-Suen, king of Urbilum, destroyed. |
| obverse | ||
| 1 | [3(asz) gu2] 2(u) 6(disz) ma-na siki | 3 talents 26 mana wool |
| 2 | a-ra2 1(disz)-kam | for the first time |
| 3 | 3(asz) gu2 siki a-ra2 2(disz)-kam | 3 talents of wool, 2nd time |
| 4 | ki ur-dam-ta | from Urdam |
| 5 | kiszib3 ur-{d}ba-ba6 lu2 sanga | under seal of Ur-Baba, the temple administrator; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | iti ezem-{d}szul-gi | month: “Festival-of-Šulgi,’ |
| 2 | mu {d}amar-[{d}suen ...] | year: “Amar-Suen |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}ba-ba6 | Ur-Baba |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-sa6-ga | son of Ur-saga, |
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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