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NMSA 3840 (P342014)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | NMSA 3840 |
|---|---|
| ID | P342014 |
| Museum no. | NMSA 3840 |
| Collection | National Museum of Syria, Aleppo, Syria |
| 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(disz) dug dida 3(disz) sila3 kasz | 1 jug of wort, 3 sila3 of beer, |
| 2 | 1(ban2) ninda 2(disz) gin2 i3 2(disz) gin2 naga | 1 ban2 bread, 2 shekels oil, 2 [shekels alkali-plant], |
| 3 | 3(disz) ku6 3(disz) sa szum2 | 3 fish, 3 bundles onions |
| 4 | szar-ru-um-ba-ni gaba-asz | Šarrum-bani to the frontier |
| 5 | 1(disz) dug dida 3(disz) sila3 kasz# | 1 jug of wort, 3 sila3 of beer |
| 6 | 1(ban2) ninda 2(disz) gin2 i3 2(disz)# [gin2] naga# | 1 ban2 bread, 2 shekels oil, 2 [shekels alkali-plant] |
| 7 | 3(disz)# ku6 3(disz) sa# [szum2] | 3 fish, 3 bundles onions |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | la#-sza-num2 x [x] | La-ša-num |
| 2 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz saga 3(disz) sila3# ninda | 5 sila3 fine beer, 3 sila3, bread |
| 3 | 2(disz) gin2 i3 2(disz) gin2 naga | 2 shekels oil, 2 shek[els alkali-plant] |
| 4 | 1(disz) ku6 1(disz) <sa> szum2 | 1 fish, 1 bundle onions |
| 5 | i3-li2-x-x-gaba-ta | from Ilī-...-gaba |
| 6 | szunigin 2(disz) dug dida du 1(ban2) | total: 2 jugs of common wort, 1 ban2 (= 100 sila3) |
| 7 | szunigin 5(disz) sila3 kasz saga szunigin 6(disz) sila3 kasz | total: 5 sila3 fine beer; total: 6 sila2 beer; |
| 8 | [szunigin 2(ban2)] 3(disz) sila3 ninda 6(disz) gin2 i3 | total: 2 ban2 3 sila3 bread, 6 shekels oil |
| 9 | szunigin 6(disz) gin2 naga | total: 6 shekels alkali-plant |
| 10 | szunigin 7(disz) ku6 szunigin 7(disz) sa szum2 | Total: 7 fish; total: 7 bundles onions; |
| left | ||
| 1 | u4 1(u) 6(disz)-kam | 16th day, |
| 2 | iti sig4-{gesz#}[...] | month: “Bricks |
| 3 | mu# us2-sa {d}szu-{d}suen# [...] | year following: “Šu-Suen |
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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