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Nisaba 17, 008 (P374137)

Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE

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Designation	Nisaba 17, 008
ID	P374137
Museum no.	BM 093429
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)

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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	[n] 2(asz)# sze gur [lugal]	... 2 gur of barley, royal measure
2	i3-dub sag#-ub3#{ki#}-ta	from the depot of Šagub
3	sze-numun a-sza3 a-lal3-sze3	seed barley for the field Alal;
4	ki ba-zi-ta	from Bazi
5	mu ur-{d}nansze	Year: Ur-Nanše
reverse
1	dumu ensi2	son of the governor
2	lu2-gu-la	Lu-gula,
3	szu ba-an-ti	received.
4	giri3 na-bi2-{d}en-lil2-la2	via Nabi-Enlila;
5	[mu {d}amar-{d}]suen# [ur-bi2-lum{ki} ba]-hul#	year: “Amar-Suen Urbilum was destroyed.‭

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