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CUSAS 33, 222 (P325128)
Business / Contracts, ED IIIb, Umma · c. 2500 BCE–2340 BCE
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| Designation | CUSAS 33, 222 |
|---|---|
| ID | P325128 |
| Museum no. | CUNES 50-08-045 |
| Collection | Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | ED IIIb · c. 2500 BCE–2340 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts |
| Find spot | Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) |
| Coordinates | 31.6669, 45.8861 |
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 | 2(bur3@c) 1(esze3@c) GAN2 | 2 bur3 1 eše3 field, |
| 2 | LAK692-ba-ra | LAK69-bara |
| 3 | 1(asz@c) [n] 4(asz@c)# gin2 ku3-luh ma-na | 1 ... 4 shekels of refined silver per mina |
| 4 | sa10 a-sza3 | purchase of the field |
| 5 | 1(asz@c) {tug2}aktumx(SU) 1(asz@c) {tug2}ib2-du3 | 1 sash, 1 bibdu-garment |
| obverse col 2 | ||
| 1 | nig2-ba | gift |
| 2 | 6(asz@c) 3(barig@c) sze | 6 (gur) 3 barig barley |
| 3 | nig2 e2-ta e3-a | that which left the house |
| 4 | di-utu szesz# sanga# | Iutu, brother of the temple administrator |
| 5 | ur-sag-utu szesz sanga# | Hero, brother of the temple administrator |
| 6 | sza3-gu2-ba dumu iri-ki-du10 | Šaguba, son of Iri-kidu |
| 7 | e-sze3@90-sa10 | he bought. |
| obverse col 3 | ||
| 1 | inim-bi al-til | Its word is finished. |
| 2 | asz@c ur-sag-utu szesz sanga | Ur-sag-utu, the brother of the temple administrator |
| 3 | asz@c ama-abzu-da | with Ama-abzuda |
| 4 | asz@c en-ne-nu-um# | Enninum |
| 5 | asz@c [...] | Aš[c...] |
| 6 | nibru{ki} | of Nippur, |
| reverse col 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-ki-inim-ma | Witnesses |
| 2 | a-sza3 sa10 | a field for sale |
| 3 | nibru{ki} | of Nippur, |
| reverse col 2 | ||
| 1 | 2(esze3@c) GAN2 | 2 eše3 field area |
| 2 | a-sza3 e2-a2 | field Ea; |
| 3 | 1/3(disz@v) 4(asz@c) ku3-luh gin2 | 1/3 (mina) 4 shekels of refined silver |
| 4 | sa10 a-sza3 | purchase of the field |
| 5 | di-utu szesz sanga | Iutu, brother of the temple administrator, |
| 6 | sza3-gu2-ba | of Šaguba |
| 7 | dumu iri-ki#-du10 | son of Iri-kidu |
| 8 | e-sze3@90-sa10 | he bought. |
| reverse col 3 | ||
| 1 | az@c ur-sag-utu szesz sanga | Az-c, hero, brother of the temple administrator |
| 2 | lu2-ki-inim-ma | Witnesses |
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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