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CUSAS 23, 080 (P330139)

Administrative, ED IIIb, Adab · c. 2500 BCE–2340 BCE

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Designation	CUSAS 23, 080
ID	P330139
Museum no.	CUNES 48-06-502
Collection	Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Language	Sumerian
Period	ED IIIb · c. 2500 BCE–2340 BCE
Genre	Administrative
Find spot	Adab (mod. Bismaya)
Coordinates	31.9509, 45.6233

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	[n?] 8(gesz2@c) 2(u@c) 3(asz@c) sag	n(?) 183 (ninda) squared:
1'	[...] 1(asz@c) [...]-u2#	... 1 ...-u
obverse col 2
1	gal#-[...]	Great(?)
2	4(gesz2@c) 2(u@c) E2-NUN-zi	220, E-nun-zi;
3	3(gesz2@c) 3(u@c) 4(asz@c) x	184 ...,
4	3(gesz2@c) 5(u@c) n 1(asz@c) [...]	(total:) 351 ...
5	n 1(gesz2@c) 5(u@c) la2 3(asz@c) x	n 1 50 less 3
6	n 1(u@c) [...]	10 ...
obverse col 3
1	[...] dam#-gar#	... merchant
2	3(asz@c) lu2 ka#?-azag	3 aš-c-(workers), ka-azag workers
3	sza3-iri	the inner city
4	4(gesz2@c) 2(u@c) 4(asz@c) lu2-igi-nigin2	184, Lu-igi-nigin;
5	lugal	the king
6	9(gesz2@c) 1(asz@c) lu2-igi#-nigin2	91, Lu-igi-nigin
7	ensix(\|GAR.PA.TE.SI\|)#	governor
obverse col 4
1	3(gesz2@c) 5(asz@c) lu2	165 men
2	bil2-lal3-la	of Bilala,
3	1(gesz2@c) 7(asz@c) lu2-igi-x HUR-[x]	77, Lu-igi-x, ...;
4	n 3(u@c) la2 2(asz@c)	n 30 less 2
5	lu2 sze-ba	the man who the barley
6	3(gesz2@c) szesz surx(ERIN2)	240, goat-bearing brother
7	ar3-du2#
obverse col 5
1	kuara2 gen	I am Kuara.
2	2(gesz2@c) 2(u@c) szesz surx(ERIN2)#	210, šesz-workers
3	x-x-[x]
4	1(gesz2@c) 1(u@c) 2(asz@c) szesz surx(ERIN2)	62 aš-c-(workers), male and female,
5	E2-NUN-zi	E-nun-zi
6	5(u@c) 1(asz@c)	51,
7	1(gesz2@c) la2 3(asz@c) sza3#-iri#	90 less 3: Ša-iri
obverse col 6
1	[...]
2	[...]
3	[n szesz] surx(ERIN2)#	n brothers of the troops
4	x-kin	...-kin
5	7(asz@c) szesz surx(ERIN2)	7 young brothers,
6	ARAD2 x-gal	servant of ...gal.
7	5(u@c) lu2 e2-ak-ke-x-x	50, the man of the Eakke-
8	2(gesz2@c) 3(u@c) szita-szita	180 šitaszita
reverse col 1
1	[...]
2	ensix(\|GAR.PA.TE.SI\|)	governor
3	9(gesz2@c) 4(u@c) lu2#-kur	940, foreigners
4	bil2-lal3-la	of Bilala,
5	ti-ra#?-ma-x-x	Tirama-
6	1(gesz'u@c) 2(u@c)# la2 2(asz@c) szesz surx(ERIN2)	720 less 2 young brothers
7	2(gesz2@c) 3(u@c) szita-szita	180 šitaszita
8	[1(gesz2@c)] 2(u@c) lu2-[e2]-ak-ke-[x]-x	90, Lu-eakke-x;
reverse col 2
1	2(gesz'u@c) 7(gesz2@c) 2(u@c) 1(asz@c) [n?] gurusz#:min	141(?) male laborers
2	1(gesz'u@c) 6(gesz2@c) 2(u@c) sza3-iri	720, the inner city;
3	szu-nigin2 4(gesz'u@c) 1(gesz2@c) 4(u@c) 3(asz@c) gurusz:min	total: 483 male laborers
4	n 3(gesz2@c) n 3(asz@c) [...]	n 300 n 3 ...
reverse col 3
1	[szu]-nigin2 [n] 1(gesz'u@c) 6(gesz@c) 3(u@c) 6(asz@c) sag	total: n + 636, the width
2	sze-ba iri	the barley of the city

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