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Nisaba 08, 017 (P320495)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 08, 017 |
|---|---|
| ID | P320495 |
| Museum no. | BM 086913 |
| 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 | 1(u) sze gur | 10 gur of barley |
| 2 | 1(asz) gu2 siki-gi | 1 talent of reed |
| 3 | 1(barig) i3-gesz | 60 litres of sesame oil |
| 4 | lu2-giri17-zal lu2 azlag2 | Lu-girizal, the fuller |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | nig2-ba lugal | royal gift |
| 2 | kiszib3 sukkal-mah | under seal of Sukkalmah; |
| 3 | iti ses-da-gu7# | month: “Piglet-feast, |
| 4 | mu {d}i-bi2-{d}suen lugal | year: “Ibbi-Suen is king.{d} |
| seal 1 col 1 | ||
| 1 | [{d}i-bi2]-{d}suen | Ibbi-Suen |
| 2 | lugal kal-ga | mighty king |
| 3 | lugal uri5{ki}-ma | king of Ur |
| 4 | lugal an-ub-da limmu2-ba-ke4 | king of the four world quarters, |
| seal 1 col 2 | ||
| 1 | ARAD2-{d#}nanna# | Warad-Nanna |
| 2 | sukkal-mah# | chief minister |
| 3 | ARAD2-da#-[ni]-ir# | his servant |
| 4 | in-na#-ba# | he has given. |
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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