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BM 018000 (P317746)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BM 018000 |
|---|---|
| ID | P317746 |
| Museum no. | BM 018000 |
| 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 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)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | 1(diš) udu NIM ki-maš{ki}me | 1 spring lamb of Kimaš, |
| 2 | giri₃ šu-{<d>}ildum₃ lu₂-⸢kas₄⸣ | via Šu-Ilum, courier |
| 3 | ki-maš{ki}ta du-ni | from Kimaš went, |
| 4 | 1(diš) udu NIM sa-bu-um{ki}me | 1 spring lamb, Sabum, |
| 5 | giri₃ PU₃-KA-NI-A lu₂-kas₄ | via Pu-KA-NI-A, the courier; |
| 6 | sa-bu-um{ki}ta du-ni | from Sabum went, |
| 7 | 1(diš) maš₂ NIM du₈-du₈-li₂{ki}me | 1 spring lamb from Duduli, |
| 8 | giri₃ i-di₃-su mar-tu | via Amurru; |
| 9 | du₈-du₈-li₂{ki}še₃ du-ni | he built Duduli. |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1(diš) maš₂ NIM si-u₃{ki};-me | 1 male lamb (from) Šulmu |
| 2 | giri₃ i-šim-{d}šul;-gi lu₂-kas₄ | via Išim-Svulgi, the courier |
| 3 | si-u₃{ki}ta du-ni | from Sîn came, |
| 4 | 1(diš) maš₂ NIM gi-ša{ki}me | 1 spring lamb from Giša |
| 5 | giri₃ šu-{d}utu sukkal | via Šū-Utu, the messenger |
| 6 | gi-ša{ki}še₃ du-ni | and into the reedbeds he went, |
| 7 | iti gu₄-ra₂-bi₂-mu₂;-mu₂ | month: “Oxen-drivers,’ |
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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