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PPAC 5, 0163 (P315868)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 0163 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315868 |
| Museum no. | BM 013576 |
| 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 | 4(disz) sila3 ninda 1(disz) sila3 ninda i3-de2-<a> | 4 sila3 bread, 1 sila2 bread he will measure out |
| 2 | {d}iszkur-ba-ni sagi | Iškur-bani, cupbearer |
| 3 | 2(disz) sila3 puzur4-{d}isztaran | 2 sila3 for Puzur-Ištaran, |
| 4 | 1(ban2) 2(disz) sila3 sza3-[...] | 1 ban2 2 sila3 ... |
| 5 | 6(disz) sila3 [...] | 6 sila3 |
| 6 | 1(disz) sila3 lu2-[{d}inanna?] | 1 sila3: Lu-Inanna(?) |
| 7 | 1(u) 3(disz) gurusz [...] | 13 male laborers |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 3(disz) gurusz 1(ban2) 1(disz) sila3 | 3 male laborers, 1 ban2 1 sila3 |
| 2 | he2-dab5 {gesz}tukul-e dab5-ba | captured by the weapons, captured; |
| 3 | 1(disz) 1/2(disz) udu zi-ga didli | (and) 1 1/2 rams, full-grown, |
| 4 | zi-ga | booked out |
| 5 | u4 2(u) 3(disz)-kam | 23rd day, |
| 6 | iti diri sze-sag11-ku5 | extra month: “Harvest, |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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