CUNES 48-08-009bis (P332471)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | CUNES 48-08-009bis |
|---|---|
| ID | P332471 |
| Museum no. | CUNES 48-08-009bis |
| Collection | Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| 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 | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | [...] | |
| 3' | [...] | |
| 4' | [...] | |
| 5' | 1(u) gurusz# [...] | 10 male laborers |
| 6' | [n] gurusz 1(u) [geme2 ...] | n male laborers, 10 female laborers |
| 7' | [n] 1(disz) gurusz | n 1 male laborers |
| 8' | [n] gurusz# szitim 1(disz) gurusz e2-sze3 5(disz) x-[...] | n male laborers, builder, 1 male laborer for the house, 5 ... |
| 9' | [n] geme2 ugula [...] | n female workers, foreman ... |
| 10' | [lu2 hun]-ga2-[me-esz2] | hirelings |
| 11' | [szunigin 6(disz)] gurusz# szitim | total: 6 male laborers, builders |
| 12' | [szunigin 3(u)] 7(disz) gurusz | total: 37 male laborers |
| 13' | [szunigin 1(u)] 7(disz) geme2 | total: 17 female laborers |
| 14' | [sza3-bi]-ta | from there |
| 15' | [1(disz)] gurusz szitim um-mi-a | 1 laborer, builder of Ummiya |
| 16' | [1(disz)] gurusz szitim | 1 male laborer, builder |
| 17' | [...] | |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [n] gurusz 1(disz) geme2 im ar3-ra-de3 | n male laborers, 1 female laborer, clay poured out |
| 2' | [n gurusz] szitim 3(disz) gurusz gir4 sig4 al-urx(BAHAR2)? du3-de3 | n male laborers, builder; 3 male labourers, cutters of bricks, to make bricks |
| 3' | [n gurusz] {gesz}{u2}<kiszi17> ku5-ru-de3 gub-ba | n male laborers, to cut juniper, stationed |
| 4' | [n] gurusz sig4 en-nu ke4-de3 | n male laborers, to guard the brickwork |
| 5' | [1(disz)] gurusz ugula | 1 male laborer, foreman |
| 6' | [1(disz)] gurusz tu-ra | 1 male worker, sick |
| 7' | [szunigin] 6(disz) gurusz szitim | total: 6 male laborers, builders |
| 8' | [szunigin] 3(u) 7(disz) gurusz | total: 37 male laborers |
| 9' | [szunigin] 1(u) 7(disz) geme2 | total: 17 female laborers |
| 10' | [...] | |
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)
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