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Smithsonian 21 (P332583)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Smithsonian 21 |
|---|---|
| ID | P332583 |
| Museum no. | SI 344991f |
| 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 | 5(disz) {gi}gur sukkal 2(barig) gir esir2 e2-gal-sze3 | 5 gur, the minister; 2 barig, axes for the palace; |
| 2 | 2(disz) {gi}kid ka esir2 | 2 reed mats for sealing the mouth, |
| 3 | ki-la2-bi 1/3(disz) sar 5(disz) gin2 | its weight: 1/3 sar 5 shekels; |
| 4 | 3(disz) {gi}kid an-ta dul9 gir esir2 | 3 reed mats, from above, for work on the “wood-of-the-plow"(?) |
| 5 | ki-la2-bi 1/3(disz) sar 6(disz) gin2 | its weight: 1/3 sar 6 shekels; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ki lu2-igi-sa6-sa6-ta | from Lu-igisasa |
| 2 | kiszib3 lugal-e-ba-an-sa6 | under seal of Lugal-ebansa |
| 3 | sza3 bala-a | in the bala |
| 4 | mu us2-sa ur-bi2-lum{ki} ba-hul | year after: “Urbilum was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-e-ba-an-sa6 | Lugal-ebansa |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{d}isztaran | son of Ur-Ištaran, |
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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