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Nisaba 13, 043 (P355958)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 13, 043 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355958 |
| Museum no. | BM 098161 |
| 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(u) gurusz 3(ban2) sze lugal-ta | 10 male laborers, 3 ban2 barley per (workday) |
| 2 | ugula ur-{d}ig-alim | foreman: Ur-Igalim; |
| 3 | 3(disz) gurusz 3(ban2)-ta | 3 male laborers, 3 ban2 (= 30 sila3) each |
| 4 | ugula a2-na-na | foreman: Anana |
| 5 | 3(disz) gurusz 3(ban2)-ta | 3 male laborers, 3 ban2 (= 30 sila3) each |
| 6 | ugula ur-{d}lamma szesz i3-kal-la | foreman: Ur-Lamma, brother of Ikalla |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | sze-bi 1(asz) 3(barig) gur | its barley: 1 gur 3 barig; |
| 2 | dumu-gu4-gur dumu da-ba | son of oxen-driver, son of Daba |
| 3 | e2 {d}nin-mar{ki}-me | the temple of Ninmar, |
| 4 | i3-dub e2-duru5 {d}nin-hur-sag-lu2-ku3-nun-ta | from the depot Duru of Ninḫursaglukunun |
| 5 | ki ba-zi-ta | from Bazi |
| 6 | kiszib3 lu2-{d}nin-szubur dumu ur-{d}lamma | under seal of Lu-Ninšubur, son of Ur-Lamma; |
| 7 | iti mu-szu-du7 | month: “mušudu, |
| 8 | mu ki-masz{ki} ba-hul | year: “Kimaš was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-{d}nin-szubur | Lu-Ninšubur |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{d}lamma | son of Ur-Lamma, |
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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