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PPAC 5, 0044 (P315602)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 0044 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315602 |
| Museum no. | BM 012559 |
| 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 | ||
| 1 | 3(barig) 1(ban2) kasz du | 3 barig 1 ban2 regular beer, |
| 2 | 3(barig) 1(ban2) dabin | 3 barig 1 ban2 barley flour, |
| 3 | 1(disz) sila3 i3-gesz | 1 sila3 sesame oil |
| 4 | u4 2(u) la2 1(disz@t)-kam | the 19th day, |
| 5 | {d}nanna-ma-an-szum2 ugula-gesz2 | Nanna-manšum, overseer |
| 6 | 2(u) aga3-us2 lugal 1(ban2) dabin-ta | 20 royal soldiers, 1 ban2 of dabin flour each |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [...] | |
| 2 | ansze-[edin?]-na dab5-de3 gen-na | I am going to capture the donkey in the plain |
| 3 | 1(disz) udu | 1 sheep |
| 4 | 1(disz) dug dida du | 1 jug of regular dida beer, |
| 5 | 3(ban2) zi3 dub-dub | 3 ban2 of dubdub flour, |
| 6 | 2(ban2) nig2-ar3-ra imgaga3 | 2 ban2 “ni₂-ar″.imgaga₃-grain |
| 7 | nig2 siskur2-ra | that which is a sacrifice |
| 8 | giri3 {d}nanna-ma-an-szum2 | via Nanna-manšum |
| left | ||
| 1 | iti mu-szu-du7 | month: “mušudu, |
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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