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Nisaba 22, 003 (P315860)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 22, 003 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315860 |
| Museum no. | BM 013564 |
| 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 | 1(barig) 3(ban2) kasz lugal | 1 barig 3 ban2 royal beer, |
| 2 | 1(barig) 3(ban2) ninda du8-a | 1 barig 3 ban2 of baked bread, |
| 3 | 1/3(disz) i3-gesz | 1/3 (workman): I-geš |
| 4 | elam du8-du8-li2{ki} szu ba-ti | Elam and Duduli received. |
| 5 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 ninda | 5 sila3 beer, 5 sila3 bread, |
| 6 | lu2-{d}nanna sukkal lugal elam-da gen-na | Lu-Nanna, the envoy, king of Elam, came. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | sza3 ki#-nu-nir{ki} | in Kinunir |
| 2 | 3(disz) dug dida du | 3 jugs of regular dida beer, |
| 3 | 1(barig) dabin | 1 barig flour, |
| 4 | kaskal-sze3 elam du8-du8-li2{ki} szu ba-ti | Elam and Duduli received for the journey. |
| 5 | giri3 lu2-{d}nanna sukkal | via Lu-Nanna, the messenger; |
| 6 | zi-ga a-kal-la | booked out of Akalla |
| 7 | iti ezem-{d}dumu-zi | month: “Festival-of-Dumuzi,’ |
| 8 | mu en-unu6-gal-an-na en {d}inanna ba-hun | year: “Enunugalana, the en-priestess of Inanna, was installed;’ |
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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