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PPAC 5, 0047 (P315620)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 0047 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315620 |
| Museum no. | BM 012583 |
| 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 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 3(disz) sila3 zi3 | 5 sila3 beer, 3 sila₃ flour, |
| 2 | 1(disz) <i3> id-gur2 | 1 <i> oil |
| 3 | nu-ur2-i3-li2 | Nur-ilī |
| 4 | 1(barig) kasz du lugal | 60 litres of regular-quality beer for the king |
| 5 | 1(barig) dabin 1(disz) sila3 i3-gesz | 1 barig flour, 1 sila3 sesame oil, |
| 6 | elam szi-<ma>-asz-gi4{ki} | Elam Šimaški |
| 7 | giri3 nu-ur2-i3-li2 | via Nur-ilī |
| 8 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 3(disz) sila3 zi3 | 5 sila3 beer, 3 sila₃ flour, |
| 9 | 1(disz) i3 id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | puzur4-i3-li2 lu2 {gesz}tukul-gu-la | Puzur-ilī, the man of the great weapon |
| 2 | 3(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 zi3 | 3 sila3 beer, 2 sila₃ flour, |
| 3 | 1(disz) i3 id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 4 | szu-esz18-dar lu2 kas4 | Šuʾiṭšar, the messenger, |
| 5 | szuszin{ki}-ta gen-na | went from Susa |
| 6 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 3(disz) sila3 zi3 | 5 sila3 beer, 3 sila₃ flour, |
| 7 | 1(disz) i3 id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 8 | ur-sa6-ga sukkal | Ur-saga, the messenger; |
| 9 | egir ur-{d}ig-alim | after Ur-Igalim |
| 10 | 4(disz) sila3 kasz 4(disz) sila3 zi3 | 4 sila₃ beer, 4 sila” flour, |
| 11 | 1(disz) i3 id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 12 | szu-{d}en-lil2 i7 nun-sze3 | Šū-Enlil to the princely canal |
| left | ||
| 1 | zi-ga u4 2(u) 3(disz)-<kam> | booked out, 23rd day |
| 2 | iti szu-numun | month: “Sowing,’ |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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