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PPAC 5, 0078 (P315686)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 0078 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315686 |
| Museum no. | BM 013109 |
| 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 | 2(gesz2) 1(u) 1(disz) 1/2(disz) ninda gid2 gi | 121 1/2 ninda length, reed |
| 2 | ugula lugal-u2-szim-e | foreman: Lugal-ušime, |
| 3 | 1(gesz2) 1(u) la2 1(disz@t) ninda ugula bi2-bi2 | 70 less 1 breads, foreman Bibi, |
| 4 | 4(gesz2) 3(u) ugula lu2-[...] | 240, foreman: Lu- |
| 5 | 1(u) 6(disz) 1/2(disz) engar-me | 16 1/2 plowmen |
| 6 | 5(disz) ur-{d}lamma aszgab | 5: Ur-Lamma, the leatherworker; |
| 7 | 5(disz) ur-{d}szul-gi tug2-du8 | 5 (mana wool for) Ur-Šulgi textiles, |
| 8 | 1(gesz2) la2 1(disz@t) lu2 hun-ga2-me | 69 hirelings, |
| 9 | 9(gesz2) [...] ninda gid2 gi | 9(sixties) ... long bread, reed |
| 10 | 1(gesz2) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 ugula {d}lamma-di-ne | 60 workdays, male laborers, foreman: Lamma-dine |
| 12 | 3(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 ugula bi2-bi2 | 30 workdays, male laborers, foreman: Bibi |
| 13 | im-du8-a-sze3 di-di | I want to go to the storage facility, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-sza3 a gesztin-na | field, water and wine |
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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