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Nisaba 23, 015 (P376077)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 23, 015 |
|---|---|
| ID | P376077 |
| Museum no. | BM 110217 |
| 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)
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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 | 4(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 sze zar3 tab-ba szu ur3-ra | 40 workdays, male laborers, barley rations piled up in a pile, |
| 2 | a-sza3 szu-nu-kusz2 | field Šunukush |
| 3 | 1(gesz2) 2(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 60 workdays, male laborers, |
| 4 | sze zar3 tab-ba szu-ur3-ra | barley piled up in piles, |
| 5 | a-sza3 sag-du3 | the field of Sagdu |
| 6 | 1(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 1 male laborer for 1 day |
| 7 | ki-su7-ra sag-du3 gub-ba | stationed at the main dining hall, |
| 8 | 4(u) 1(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 41 male laborer workdays, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ki-su7-ra sag-du3-ta | from the main dining hall |
| 2 | i7 lugal-sze3 zi-ga | booked out of the royal canal |
| 3 | ugula ur-e2-nun-na | foreman: Ur-Enunna; |
| 4 | kiszib3 lugal-ku3-zu | under seal of Lugal-kuzu |
| 5 | mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal | year: “Šū-Suen is king.{d} |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-ku3-zu | Lugal-kuzu |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu lugal-e2-mah-e | son of Lugal-emaḫe, |
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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