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NMSA 3948 (P342071)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | NMSA 3948 |
|---|---|
| ID | P342071 |
| Museum no. | NMSA 3948 |
| 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) 1(disz) gurusz | 11 male laborers |
| 2 | ugula ur-mes? | foreman: Ur-mes; |
| 3 | 1(u) 1(disz) gurusz | 11 male laborers |
| 4 | ugula la-ni | foreman: Lani; |
| 5 | 1(u) 1/2(disz) gurusz | 10 1/2 male laborers, |
| 6 | ugula e3-kal-[la] | foreman: Ekalla |
| 7 | 1(u) 5(disz) gurusz | 15 male laborers |
| 8 | ugula lugal-iti-da | foreman: Lugal-itida; |
| 9 | 1(u) 3(disz) gurusz | 13 male laborers |
| 10 | mu6-sub3!(GU4)-ku5 ur-{d}szul-pa-e3 | herdsman: Ur-Šulpa’e; |
| 11 | 8(disz) gurusz | 8 male laborers |
| 12 | ugula ur#?-gir2#?-su#? x | foreman: Ur-girsu |
| 13 | 1(u) la2 1(disz@t) gurusz | 9 male laborers, |
| 14 | ugula x-e2 | foreman: -e; |
| 15 | 1(u) 4(disz) gurusz 2(disz) tu-ra | 14 male laborers, 2 turru |
| 16 | [ugula lu2]-igi-sa6-sa6 | foreman: Lu-igi-sasa |
| 17 | [x] gurusz# [x] tu-ra | ... young man ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [ugula] ba?-sa6 | foreman: Basa |
| 2 | [x gurusz] ugula usz-mu | x male laborers, foreman of weavers |
| 3 | [x] gurusz# 3(barig) a2 2/3(disz) | x male laborers, 3 barig, 2/3 labor |
| 4 | [x gurusz] da#-a-gi | ... young man Da’agi |
| 5 | [x gurusz] | ... young man |
| 6 | [ugula] x-x-na | foreman: ...na |
| 7 | [x] gurusz 4(barig) a2 2/3(disz) 2(disz) tu | x male laborers, 4 barig, 2/3 labor, 2 workdays |
| 8 | [ugula] du10-ga-mu | foreman: Dugamu |
| 9 | [1(u)?] 6(disz) gurusz ugula ur-{d}szul-pa-e3 | 16 male laborers, foreman: Ur-Šulpa’e |
| 10 | 2(u) la2 1(disz@t) geme2 3(ban2) | 20 less 1 female workers, 3 ban2 (= 30 sila3) |
| 11 | ugula ur-{d}ur3-bar-tab | foreman: Ur-Urbartab; |
| 12 | 1(u) 5(disz) geme2 ugula lu2-bala-saga | 15 female laborers, foreman: Lu-bala-saga |
| 13 | 2(u) 3(disz) geme2 ugula ur-{d}nin-tu | 23 female laborers, foreman: Ur-Nintu |
| 14 | 2(u) 2(disz) geme2 ugula {d}szara2-za-me | 22 female laborers, foreman: Šara-zame |
| 15 | 3(u) 3(disz) geme2 ugula da-ga | 33 female laborers, foreman: Daga |
| 16 | 2(u) 3(disz) geme2 ugula dingir-ra | 23 female laborers, foreman: Dingira |
| 17 | x x szu kal?-la? saga | ... good quality |
| 18 | x x x x x x x | |
| 19 | iti sig4-{gesz}i3-szub-ba-{ga2}gar | month: “Bricks cast in moulds,’ |
| 20 | mu us2-sa ki-masz{ki} mu us2-sa-a-bi | year after: “Kimaš,’‘year after that— |
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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