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PPAC 5, 0101 (P315716)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 0101 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315716 |
| Museum no. | BM 013303 |
| 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 | 2(u) 1(asz) sze gur lugal | 21 gur of barley, royal (measure), |
| 2 | sza3-gal erin2-na-sze3 | to the chief of the troops, |
| 3 | 1(u) 5(asz) dabin gur | 15 gur of dabin flour, |
| 4 | 4(asz) imgaga3 gur | 4 gur emmer |
| 5 | sza3-gal muszen-sze3 | fowler of birds, |
| 6 | 1(barig) zi3 gu | 1 barig gu-flour, |
| 7 | 1(barig) nig2-ar3-ra imgaga3 | 60 litres (of barley) 1 unit (for) Nigara, the smith |
| 8 | 7(disz) dug dida du | 7 jugs of common wort, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 2(disz) udu 5(disz) masz2 | 2 sheep, 5 billy goats, |
| 2 | siskur2 ma2 muszen-sze3 | offering for the boat of birds, |
| 3 | e2 kas4 gu2-ab-ba{ki}-ta | from the depot of Guabba |
| 4 | giri3 sza-ru-um-i3-li2 lu2 {gesz}tukul | via Šarrum-ilī, the man of the weapon |
| 5 | u3 ma-ni | and his land |
| 6 | iti ezem-{d}li9-si4 | month: “Festival-of-Lisi,’ |
| 7 | mu us2-sa ma2 dara4 abzu ba-ab-du8 | year following: “The dara boat of the Abzu was caulked. |
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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