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Nisaba 22, 016 (P318898)

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

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Designation	Nisaba 22, 016
ID	P318898
Museum no.	BM 019485
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	2(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda	2 sila₃ beer, 2 liters bread,
2	2(disz) gin2 i3	2 shekels oil,
3	ab-[...]	... ...
reverse
1	2(disz) gin2 i3	2 shekels oil,
2	lu2-{d}utu lu2-{gesz}tukul	Lu-Utu, Lu-tukul
3	2(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda	2 sila₃ beer, 2 liters bread,
4	2(disz) gin2 i3	2 shekels oil,
5	kur-ba lu2-{gesz}tukul	in its mountain Lu-tukul
6	iti amar-a-a-si	month: “Amar-asi,
7	zi-ga di-ku5	booked out of the judgment
8	mu ma2-dara3 ba-du8	year: “The barge was caulked.‭

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