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Smithsonian 03 (P332575)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Smithsonian 03 |
|---|---|
| ID | P332575 |
| Museum no. | SI 303278 |
| Collection | Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, 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)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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 | 3(u) 8(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 38 male laborer workdays |
| 2 | ka i7 sal4-la{ki}-ka sahar si-ga | at the mouth of the Salla canal piled up dust, |
| 3 | 1(gesz2) 3(u) 9(disz) 1/2(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 69 1/2 workdays, male laborers, |
| 4 | bar-la2 i7 sal4-la{ki} | the outer bank of the Salla canal |
| 5 | ba-al-la a-sza3 {d}szara2 | the irrigation work of the field of Šara |
| 6 | gi zex(SIG7)-a gi ga6-ga2 | ... reeds carried, |
| 7 | tir {d}nin-ildu3 | the Ninildu-woods |
| 8 | u3 tir a-sza3 la2-mah | and the forest of the field Lamaḫ |
| 9 | {gesz}ab-ba u3 {gesz}asalx(|A.TU.NIR|) de6-a | a threshing floor and a date palm |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u3 ka-giri3-da si-ga | and via Siga |
| 2 | 7(disz) 1/2(disz) gurusz {gi}dur gal | 7 1/2 male laborers, big reed mats, |
| 3 | ma2 e3 ma2 sur-ra | The boat that left, the boat that went out |
| 4 | ugula ur-am3-ma | foreman: Ur-ama; |
| 5 | kiszib3 lu2-{d}szul-gi | under seal of Lu-Šulgi |
| 6 | mu ma-da za-ab-sza-li{ki} ba-hul | year: “The land of Zabšali was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-{d}szul-gi | Lu-Šulgi |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu da-da-a | son of Dadâ |
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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