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Nisaba 08, 121 (P320540)
Administrative, Ur III, Puzriš-Dagan · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 08, 121 |
|---|---|
| ID | P320540 |
| Museum no. | BM 117180 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Puzriš-Dagan (mod. Drehem) |
| Coordinates | 32.0591, 45.2922 |
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 | 5(disz) udu | 5 sheep, |
| 2 | szu-gid2 e2-muhaldim | regular offerings for the kitchen; |
| 3 | mu x-[...-sze3] | to the year: “...,' |
| 4 | u4 1(u) 6(disz)?-[kam] | 16th day |
| 5 | ki du11-[ga-...] | At the place of ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ba-zi# | booked out |
| 2 | iti ezem-me-ki-gal2 | month: “Festival-of-Mekigal,’ |
| 3 | mu ma2-dara3 abzu ba-ab-du8 | year: “The barge of the Abzu was caulked. |
| seal 1 col 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}szu-{d}suen | Šū-Suen, |
| 2 | lugal kal-ga | mighty king |
| 3 | lugal uri5{ki}-ma | king of Ur |
| 4 | lugal an-ub-da limmu2-ba | king of the four quarters |
| seal 1 col 2 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}szul-pa-e3 | Ur-Šulpa'e, |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{d}ha-ia3 | son of Ur-Ḫaya, |
| 4 | ARAD2-zu | your servant. |
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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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