Home › Tablets › P376026

Nisaba 26, 017 (P376026)

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

Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets

Designation	Nisaba 26, 017
ID	P376026
Museum no.	BM 110162
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	1(asz@c) 1(barig) 1(ban2) 5(disz) 4(disz) ug3 {d}szara2-a-mu ugula	1 aš-c-(worker), 1 barig 1 ban2 5 (disz) 4 (workers), porter: Šara-āmu, foreman
2	1(disz) 1(ban2) 5(disz) 1(disz) 1/2(disz) ur-{d}szul-pa-e3	1 1 ban2 5 1 1/2 (for) Ur-Šulpa'e
3	1(disz) 1(ban2) 1(disz) ARAD2-{d}szara2	1 1 ban2 1: Warad-Šara
4	dumu-ni-me	his sons
5	1/2(asz@c) GAN2 ur-{d}isztaran	1/2 aš-c-(worker), ‘field’ (for) Ur-Isztaran
6	u2-IL2 {d}szara2 \|KI.AN\|{ki}-ta!	carrying baskets for Šara of Ki’an;
7	1/2(asz@c) GAN2 ur-{d}utu	1/2 aš-c-(worker): Ur-Utu
8	1(disz) ur-{d}inanna	1 Ur-Inanna,
9	1(disz) lu2-{d}inanna	1 Lu-Inanna,
10	1(disz) e3-a-ab-ta-an	1 Ea-abbtan
11	1(disz) lu2-bala-saga	1 Lu-bala-saga,
12	dumu-ni-me	his sons
13	1/2(asz@c) GAN2 ur-an-zi-za	1/2 aš-c-(worker): Ur-anziza
14	1/2(asz@c) GAN2 ha-ba-lu5-ge2 agar4-nigin2	1/2 aš-c-(worker), ‘field’ of Ḫabaluge, irrigated
15	szu ku5-da	cut off
16	1/2(asz@c) GAN2 e2-lu2-bi-zu	1/2 aš-c-(worker): Elubizu
17	1/2(asz@c) GAN2 im-ta-e3-a	1/2 aš-c-(worker): Imtaea
18	1(asz) ab giri3-ni-i3-sa6	1 cow: Girini-isa
19	dumu-ni-me	his sons
reverse
1	1/2(asz@c) GAN2 ur-tul2-sag	1/2 aš-c-(worker), field Ur-Tulsag,
2	1(disz) lu2-he2-gal2 dumu-ni	1 Lu-hegal, his son
3	ki lugal-mu-ma-ag2-ta	from Lugal-mumag
4	1(asz@c) 1(barig) 1(ban2) 5(disz) 4(disz) ug3 lugal-ur2-ra-ni	1 aš-c-(worker), 1 barig 1 ban2 5 (gur) 4 (gur), the people of Lugal-urani
5	1(disz) ur-{d}gilgamesx(\|BIL3.GA.MES\|)	1 Ur-Gilgamesh,
6	1(disz) szesz-a-ni	1 Šešani,
7	dumu-ni-me	his sons
8	ki da-du-mu-ta	from Dadumu
9	1/2(asz@c) GAN2 ur-{d}suen dumu {d}szara2-kam	1/2 aš-c-(worker): Ur-Suen, son of Šarakam;
10	u2-IL2 giri17-dab5 {d}szara2 \|KI.AN\|{ki}-ta	carrying baskets for Šara of Ki’an;
11	1(asz@c) ug3 {d}szara2-kam dumu da-ti-x-ni	1: people of Šarakam, son of Ati-x-ni;
12	1(asz@c) GAN2 e2-u6-e gudu4 {d}ak-{d}suen	1 aš-c-(worker), ‘field’: E-ue, gudu-priest of Bak-Suen
13	[szunigin] 1(asz@c) ug3 gurusz ugula	total: 1 aš-c-(worker), porter, foreman
14	[szunigin] 9(asz@c) gurusz a2 1/2(asz@c)	total: 9 male laborers, 1/2 workdays
15	[szunigin] 2(asz@c) ug3 sze-ba	total: 2 barley-fed people
16	szunigin 1(asz) ab-IL2	total: 1 aš-(worker), porter
17	szunigin 1(u) la2 1(disz@t) dumu-nita2	total: 9 sons
18	szunigin 1(disz) szu gurusz!	total: 1 hand, male laborers
19	ugula {d}szara2-a-mu	foreman: Šara-amu;
20	iti {d}dumu-zi	month: “Dumuzi,’
21	mu sza-asz-ru-um{ki} ba-hul	year: “Šašrum was destroyed.‭
seal 1
1	{d}szara2-a-mu	Šara-āmu,
2	dumu {d}szara2-szesz	son of Šara-aḫeš,

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)

Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.