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PPAC 5, 0117 (P315739)
Administrative, Ur III, Nippur · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 0117 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315739 |
| Museum no. | BM 013357 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
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 | 5(u) 2(disz) gurusz al 1(u) sar | 52 male laborers, hoed at 10 sar (per day), |
| 2 | erin2 e2 mar-za{ki}-ka | (labor-)troops of the Marza temple |
| 3 | ugula iri-ki-bi | foreman: Iri-kibu; |
| 4 | 2(u) gurusz gi 2(u) sar | 20 male laborers, reeds, 20 sar |
| 5 | sza3-gu4-me | oxen herdsman |
| 6 | 3(u) gurusz al 6(disz) sar | 30 male laborers, hoed at 6 sar (per day), |
| 7 | 2(u) gurusz al 1(u) sar | 20 male laborers hoeing 10 sar, |
| 8 | 4(u) 2(disz) gurusz al 1(u) 2(disz) sar | 42 male laborers, hoed at 12 sar (per day), |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(u) di4-di4 {u2}gil | 10 small plants of juniper |
| 2 | 1(gesz2) 3(u) 7(disz) gurusz | 97 male laborers |
| 3 | lu2 hun-ga2-me | hirelings |
| 4 | szunigin 2(gesz2) 5(u) la2 1(disz@t) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | total: 190 less 1 male laborer workdays |
| 5 | gurum2 ak | inspections performed |
| 6 | iti kin-{d}inanna | month: “Palace-of-Inanna,’ |
| 7 | u4 5(disz) ba-zal | the 5th day passed |
| 8 | nu-banda3 lugal-me-lam2 | the overseer: Lugal-melam |
| 9 | a-sza3 {d}szu-{d}suen {d}en-lil2-da nir-gal2 | field of Šū-Sîn, trusted by Enlil, |
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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