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NMSA 3848 (P342018)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | NMSA 3848 |
|---|---|
| ID | P342018 |
| Museum no. | NMSA 3848 |
| 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(u) 5(disz) gurusz u4 2(u) 5(disz)-sze3 | 15 male laborers for 25 days |
| 2 | uri5{ki}-sze3 | to Ur |
| 3 | sze ma2-a si-ga | barley loaded into a barge |
| 4 | giri3 ur-{d}nin-mar{ki} | via Ur-Ninmar; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(u) gurusz u4 7(disz)-sze3 | 10 male laborers for 7 days |
| 2 | uri5{ki}-ta | from Ur |
| 3 | umma{ki}-me | of Umma |
| 4 | ma2 kusz gesz gid2-da | barge with leather straps, long, |
| 5 | ugula lugal-mu-ma-ag2 | foreman: Lugal-mumag; |
| 6 | kiszib3 lugal-e-ba-an-sa6# | under seal of Lugal-ebansa |
| 7 | mu gu-za {d#}en#-[lil2 ...] ba-[dim2] | year: “The throne of Enlil ... was fashioned. |
| 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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