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Nisaba 05/1, 012 (P331075)
Administrative, Ur III, Ur · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 05/1, 012 |
|---|---|
| ID | P331075 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) |
| Coordinates | 30.9607, 46.1063 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From 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)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o i | ||
| 2' | [n] ⸢zi⸣-[...] | n eši-e- |
| 3' | [n] ur-[...] | n, Ur-...; |
| 4' | 1(diš) ur-[...] | 1 Ur- |
| 5' | 3(diš) pu₃-{d}[...] | 3 Pu- |
| 6' | 3(diš) hu-hu-[...] | 3 (mana wool for) Huhu- |
| 7' | 3(diš) lu₂-du₁₀-ga | 3 (mana wool for) Lu-duga |
| 8' | 2(diš) SI-A-a | 2 SI-aya |
| 9' | 2(diš) ur-sag-ub₃ | 2: Ur-sag-ub |
| 10' | 1(diš) a-mu-a | 1 Amua |
| 11' | 2(diš) NE-NE-a | 2 NE-NEa |
| 12' | 4(diš) lu₂-{d}nanše | 4: Lu-Nanše |
| 13' | šu-nigin₂ 3(u) 1(diš) gub-ba | total: 31 stationed |
| 14' | 2(geš₂) 1(diš) 1/2(diš) zi-ga | 121 1/2 (measures of) ziga |
| 15' | ⸢la₂⸣-ia₃ 8(diš) guruš | Ela’eya 8 male laborers |
| 16' | ku₃-dim₂-me | they are silversmiths |
| 17' | 2(diš) iri-lal₃ | 2: Irilal; |
| 18' | 5(diš) lugal-ku₃-zu | 5: Lugal-kuzu |
| 19' | 3(diš) engar-du₁₀ | 3: Engar-du |
| 20' | 7(diš) nam-ha-ni | 7 (mana wool for) Namhani |
| 21' | 5(diš) ur-ti-ra:aš₂ | 5 Ur-tiriraš |
| 22' | 3(diš) ma₂-gur₈-⸢re⸣ | 3 (mana wool for) Magur-Ere’e |
| o ii | ||
| 1' | nagar-me | are carpenters. |
| 2' | 5(diš) ur-{d}da-mu | 5, Ur-Damu; |
| 3' | 4(diš) lu₂-{d}nanše | 4: Lu-Nanše |
| 4' | 6(diš) ur-sa₆-ga | 6, Ur-saga; |
| 5' | 7(diš) igi-sa₆-sa₆ | 7: Igisasa |
| 6' | 7(diš) lugal-e₂-⸢mah⸣ | 7 (mana wool for) Lugal-emaḫe |
| 7' | šu-nigin₂ 3(u) la₂ 1(diš) gub-ba | total: 29 stationed |
| 8' | 7(diš) zi-ga | 7 (mana wool for) Ziga |
| 9' | la₂-ia₃ 8(diš) guruš | deficit: 8 male laborers |
| 10' | {geš}ban-dim₂-me | a kind of table |
| 11' | 1(u) 3(diš) 1(u) 3(aš) da-da | 13 (mana wool for) Dada |
| 12' | šu-nigin₂ 2(u) 6(diš) sag-dub x-x-ba | total: 26 (mana wool for) the sagdub-office of ... |
| 13' | 5(diš) zi-ga | 5 (mana wool for) Ziga |
| 14' | la₂-ia₃ 3(diš) guruš | deficit: 3 male laborers |
| 15' | i₃-du₈-me | they are gatekeepers |
| 16' | 1(u) la₂ 2(diš) lugal-gi-[...] | 9: Lugal-gi-[...] |
| r i | ||
| 1 | 1(u) 8(aš) da-ga | 18 (gur) daga flour |
| 2 | 1(u) 2(geš₂) 1(u) ur-{d}ba-u₂ | 1010, Ur-Bau |
| 3 | 7(diš) 7(aš) ab-ba | 7 (mana wool for) Abba |
| 4 | 8(diš) 7(aš) ku-li | 8 7 kuli |
| 5 | 8(diš) 1(aš) lu₂-nimgir | 8, 1: Lu-nimgir; |
| 6 | 1(u) 4(diš) 3(aš) lu₂-inim-gi | 14 (mana wool for) Lu-inim-gi |
| 7 | 1(u) nam-ha-ni | 10 (gur) of Namhani |
| 8 | 7(diš) 8(aš) ur-ig | 7 (mana wool for) 8 dogs |
| 9 | 5(diš) ur-ur | 5 Urur |
| 10 | 2(diš) lu₂ didli | 2 multi-talent men |
| 11 | šu-nigin₂ 1(geš₂) 3(u) 2(diš) sag-dub | total: 92, head-bundles |
| 12 | 2(geš₂) 2(u) la₂ 2(diš) zi-[ga] | 220 less 2 booked out |
| 13 | la₂-ia₃ 5(diš) [guruš] | deficit: 5 male laborers |
| 14 | 5(u) 4(diš) šeš-⸢kal⸣ | 54 Šeš-ekal-e23 |
| 15 | simug-[me] | the smiths |
| 16 | 8(diš) lu₂ x-[...] | 8 men |
| 17 | 6(diš) lu₂ [...] | 6 ... men |
| 18 | 7(diš) lu₂ [...] | 7 ... men |
| 19 | 6(diš) lu₂ [...] | 6 ... men |
| 20 | ba-[ug₇] | died |
| 21 | 1(u) ur-[...] | 10: Ur- |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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