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Smithsonian 17 (P332580)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Smithsonian 17 |
|---|---|
| ID | P332580 |
| Museum no. | SI 344991b |
| 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 | 1(gesz2) 4(u) 1(disz) gurusz | 91 male laborers, |
| 2 | u4 1(disz)-sze3 gi ku5-a | for 1 workday, reed cut, |
| 3 | u3 gesz ku5 ak 2(u) sar-ta | and cut logs, 20 sar each, |
| 4 | 7(disz) 1/2(disz) gurusz {gesz}ma-nu ku5-a 1(u) 1(disz)-ta | 7 1/2 male laborers, manu-cut at 11 each, |
| 5 | a2 lu2 hun-ga2 5(disz) sila3-ta | labor of hirelings: 5 sila3 each |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-sza3 GAN2-mah | field GAN-maḫ |
| 2 | kiszib3 lugal-ku3-zu sukkal | under seal of Lugal-kuzu, the messenger; |
| 3 | ugula ur-e2-nun-na | foreman: Ur-Enunna; |
| 4 | iti {d}li9-si4 | month: “Lisi,’ |
| 5 | mu ha-ar-szi ki-masz{ki} ba-hul | year: “Ḫarši and Kimash were destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-ku3-zu | Lugal-kuzu |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-nigar{gar} szusz3 | son of Ur-nigar, cattle manager |
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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