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Nisaba 13, 013 (P355928)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 13, 013 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355928 |
| Museum no. | BM 098131 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| 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 | 6(disz)# masz2 | 6 goats |
| 2 | la2-ia3 su-ga udu na-gab2-tum | deficit of the nagabtum sheep, |
| 3 | ur5-sa6-sa6 i3-dab5 | Ursasa accepted; |
| 4 | mu ur5-sa6-sa6-sze3 | for Ursasa; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | kiszib3 na-ba-sa6 ib2-ra | Sealed tablet of Nabasa. |
| 2 | giri3 nim-mu | via Elam |
| 3 | mu ur-bi2-lum{ki} ba-hul | year: “Urbilum was destroyed. |
| obverse | ||
| 1 | 6(disz) masz2# [la2-ia3 su]-ga# | 6 billy goats, deficit, repaid |
| 2 | udu na-gab2#-tum# | sheep for the nagabtum-festival |
| 3 | ur5-sa6-sa6 mu6#-sub3!(GU4) | Ursasa is the bull |
| 4 | mu ur5-sa6-sa6-sze3 | for Ursasa; |
| 5 | kiszib3 na-ba-sa6 ib2-ra | Sealed tablet of Nabasa. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | sipa udu NE dun-a | shepherd who ... sheep |
| 2 | giri3 nim-mu | via Elam |
| 3 | mu ur#-[bi2-lum{ki} ba]-hul# | year: “Urbilum was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | na#-ba-sa6 | Nabasa |
| 2 | dumu he2-sa6# | son of Hesa |
| 3 | [iszib {d}]szara2# | in the household of Šara |
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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