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PPAC 5, 0157 (P315837)
Administrative, Ur III, Nippur · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 0157 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315837 |
| Museum no. | BM 013531 |
| 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)
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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(u) 5(disz) gurusz al 1(u) 5(disz) sar | 35 male laborers, hoed at 15 sar (per day), |
| 2 | 4(u) 6(disz) gurusz al 1(u) sar | 46 male laborers, hoed at 10 sar (per day), |
| 3 | 1(gesz2) 2(u) 1(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 61 workdays, male laborers, |
| 4 | lu2 hun-ga2-me | hirelings |
| 5 | 2(u) gurusz igi apin | 20 male laborers, before plowmen |
| 6 | sza3-gu4-me | oxen herdsman |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | szunigin 1(gesz2) 4(u) 1(disz) gurusz | total: 91 male laborers |
| 2 | gurumx(|IGI.ERIM|) ak | inspections performed; |
| 3 | iti ne-ne-gar | month: “Ne’egar, |
| 4 | u4 3(u) la2 1(disz@t) ba-zal | the 29th day passed |
| 5 | nu-banda3 lugal-me-lam2 | the overseer: Lugal-melam |
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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