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Nisaba 13, 041 (P355956)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 13, 041 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355956 |
| Museum no. | BM 098159 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Girsu (mod. Tello) |
| Coordinates | 31.5591, 46.1776 |
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(gesz'u) 5(gesz2) sze gur lugal | 1060 gur of barley, royal (measure), |
| 2 | i3-dub e2-gibil4-le-ta | from the depot of the new house |
| 3 | ma2-a si-ga | barge punted, |
| 4 | ur-e2-gal-edin-ka sukkal | Ur-Egal-edina, the messenger, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | szu ba-ti | received. |
| 2 | giri3 ba-zi | via Bazi; |
| 3 | iti szu-numun | month: “Sowing,’ |
| 4 | mu us2-sa ur-bi2-lum{ki} ba-hul | year after: “Urbilum was destroyed. |
| obverse | ||
| 1 | 1(gesz'u) 5(gesz2) sze gur lugal | 1060 gur of barley, royal (measure), |
| 2 | i3-dub e2-gibil4-le-ta | from the depot of the new house |
| 3 | ma2-a si-ga | barge punted, |
| 4 | kiszib3 ur-e2-gal-edin-ka | under seal of Ur-egal-edina |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | giri3 ba-zi | via Bazi; |
| 2 | iti szu-numun | month: “Sowing,’ |
| 3 | ugula ur-{d}nansze | foreman: Ur-Nanše |
| 4 | mu us2-sa ur-bi2-lum{ki} ba-hul | year after: “Urbilum was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | nigar{gar}-ki-du10 | Nigar-kidu |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-nigar{gar} | son of Ur-nigar, |
| 4 | nu-banda3 | overseer |
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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