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PPAC 5, 0264 (P317050)

Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE

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Designation	PPAC 5, 0264
ID	P317050
Museum no.	BM 015799
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 col 1
1	1(disz) gurusz 2(bur'u) 4(bur3) GAN2	1 male laborer, 24 bur3 surface area
2	1(disz) gurusz 1(bur'u) 8(bur3) GAN2	1 male laborer, 18 bur3 surface area
3	5(disz) gurusz 1(bur'u) 2(bur3) GAN2-ta	5 male laborers, 12 bur3 surface area each,
4	1(disz) gurusz 9(bur3) GAN2	1 male laborer, 9 bur3 surface area
5	1(u) la2 1(disz@t) gurusz 6(bur3) GAN2-ta	9 male laborers, 6 bur3 surface area each
6	1(disz) gurusz 5(bur3) 1(esze3) 3(iku) GAN2	1 male laborer, 5 bur3 1 eše3 3 iku field,
7	1(disz) gurusz 5(bur3) GAN2	1 male laborer, 5 bur3 surface area
8	1(disz) gurusz 4(bur3) 1(esze3) 3(iku) GAN2	1 male laborer, 4 bur3 1 eše3 3 iku field,
9	2(u) gurusz 4(bur3) GAN2-ta	20 male laborers, 4 bur3 field area each,
10	6(disz) gurusz 3(bur3) GAN2-ta	6 male laborers, 3 bur3 field area each,
11	1(disz) gurusz 2(bur3) 2(esze3) GAN2	1 male laborer, 2 bur3 2 eše3 surface area
12	2(disz) gurusz 2(bur3) 1(esze3) GAN2-ta	2 male laborers, 2 bur3 1 eše3 surface area each,
13	1(disz) gurusz 2(bur3) 4(iku) 1/2(iku) GAN2	1 male laborer, 2 bur3 4 1/2 iku surface,
14	[...] gurusz 2(bur3) GAN2-ta	... male laborers, 2 bur3 field area each
15	[...] gurusz 2(esze3) <GAN2>-ta	... male laborers, 2 eše3 field area each
16	[...] gurusz 1(esze3) 3(iku) <GAN2>-ta	... male laborers, 1 eše3 3 iku field area each
17	[n gurusz n]-ta	n male laborers n each
obverse col 2
1	6(gesz2) 3(u) 3(disz) gurusz ($ blank space $) GAN2-ta	383 workmen (a day),
2	1(u) 6(disz) gurusz 2(esze3) 1(iku) 1/2(iku) GAN2-ta	16 male laborers, 2 eše3 1 1/2 iku surface area each,
3	9(gesz2) 2(u) 6(disz) gurusz 1(esze3) 3(iku) GAN2-ta	166 male laborers, 1 eše3 3 iku surface area each,
4	6(gesz2) 1(u) 6(disz) gurusz 3(iku) GAN2-ta	616 male laborers, 3 iku field area each,
5	a-sza3! 2(bur'u) 4(bur3) 2(esze3) 1(iku) 1/2(iku) GAN2	24 bur3 2 eše3 1 1/2 iku surface,
6	tab-be6-dam	is to be smashed
7	3(gesz'u) 3(u) 1(disz) gurusz 1(esze3) GAN2-ta	121 male laborers, 1 eše3 field area each
8	2(u) 6(disz) gurusz 4(iku) 1/2(iku) GAN2-ta	26 male laborers, 4 1/2 iku surface area each,
9	3(disz) gurusz 4(iku) GAN2-ta	3 male laborers, 4 iku field area each,
reverse col 1
1	a-sza3 5(szar'u) 2(szar2) 8(bur3) 2(iku) [...]	field: 58 28 bur3 2 iku
2	ku5-ra2-ga2?-dam	is to be cut off
3	6(disz) gurusz [n] GAN2-ta	6 male laborers [n] cultivators each

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