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Nisaba 13, 071 (P355986)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 13, 071 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355986 |
| Museum no. | BM 098191 |
| 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) 2(asz) 5(disz) sila3 gur | 12 gur 5 sila3 |
| 2 | ugula ab-ba-kal-la | foreman: Abbakala |
| 3 | 8(asz) 4(barig) 5(ban2) gur | 8 gur 4 barig 5 ban2 |
| 4 | ugula ur-{d}a-szar2 | foreman: Ur-Ašar |
| 5 | 7(asz) 3(barig) 5(ban2) 5(disz) sila3 gur | 7 gur 3 barig 5 ban2 5 sila3 |
| 6 | ugula a-i3-li2-szu# | foreman: A'ilišu |
| 7 | 6(asz) 4(barig) 3(ban2) 5(disz) sila3 gur | 6 gur 4 barig 3 ban2 5 sila3 |
| 8 | ugula ur-{d}dumu-zi-da | foreman: Ur-Dumuzida; |
| 9 | 5(asz) 4(barig) gur | 5 gur 4 barig |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ugula ur-{d}isztaran | foreman: Ur-Ištaran; |
| 2 | 7(asz) 2(barig) gur | 7 gur 2 barig |
| 3 | ugula ur-sukkal | foreman: Ur-sukkal; |
| 4 | szunigin 4(u) 8(asz) 4(barig) 2(ban2) 5(disz) sila3 gur | total: 48 gur 4 barig 2 ban2 5 sila3 |
| 5 | sze ur5#-ra <a-sza3> igi-nim-ma | barley rations in the <first> field |
| 6 | giri3 ur-{d}dumu-zi-da | via Ur-Dumuzi |
| 7 | erin2-e <szu> ti-a | the troops in his hand |
| 8 | iti sze-sag11-ku5 | month "Harvest," |
| 9 | mu us2-sa {d}szu-{d}suen lugal-e bad3 mu-du3 | year following: “Šu-Suen, the king, the wall erected. |
| left | ||
| 1 | nu-banda3 lugal-ku3-zu | the overseer: Lugal-kuzu |
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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