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PPAC 5, 0038 (P315578)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 0038 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315578 |
| Museum no. | BM 012520 |
| 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 | 4(disz) sila3 kasz 4(disz) sila3 ninda 2(disz) gin2 i3 | 4 liters of beer, 4 litres of bread, 2 shekels of oil, |
| 2 | si2-gi4-lum | |
| 3 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 7(disz) sila3 ninda 2(disz) gin2 i3 | 5 sila3 beer, 7 sila3, bread, 2 shekels oil, |
| 4 | tu-ra-am-i3-li2 | Turam-ilī, |
| 5 | 2(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda 2(disz) gin2 i3 | 2 sila₃ beer, 2 liters bread, 2 shekels oil, |
| 6 | am3-ma-a sukkal | Ammâ, the messenger, |
| 7 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 ninda 2(disz) gin2 i3 | 5 liters of beer, 5 litres of bread, 2 shekels of oil, |
| 8 | ur-{d}nin-gubalag! sukkal | Ur-Ningubalag, the messenger; |
| 9 | 5(disz) sila3 ninda aga3-us2 ku6-sze3 gen-na | 5 sila3 bread for a soldier going to the fish, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 2(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda 2(disz) gin2 i3 | 2 sila₃ beer, 2 liters bread, 2 shekels oil, |
| 2 | szu-{d}nin-szubur | Šū-Ninszubur, |
| 3 | 2(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda | 2 sila₃ beer, 2 liters bread, |
| 4 | 2(disz) gin2 i3 2(disz) gin2 i3 udu | 2 shekels oil, 2 shek[els] sheep oil, |
| 5 | nu-ur2-esz18-dar lu2 {gesz}tukul-gu-la | Nur-Ištar, the man of the great weapon |
| 6 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 ninda | 5 sila3 beer, 5 sila3 bread, |
| 7 | 2(disz) gin2 i3 | 2 shekels oil, |
| 8 | sza-ru-um-i3-li2 | Sarum-ilī, |
| 9 | 1(ban2) ninda elam-me u4 5(disz)-kam | 1 ban2 of elam-bread on the 5th day, |
| 10 | 2(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda 2(disz) gin2 i3 | 2 sila₃ beer, 2 liters bread, 2 shekels oil, |
| 11 | ku5-da-mu | Kudammu |
| left | ||
| 1 | u4 2(u) la2 1(disz@t)-kam iti GAN2-masz | 19th day, month: "GANmaš," |
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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