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Nisaba 23, 017 (P376082)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 23, 017 |
|---|---|
| ID | P376082 |
| Museum no. | BM 110222 |
| 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) 6(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 46 workdays, male laborers |
| 2 | a-sza3 {d}szara2 sze gur10-a | field Šara, barley rations, |
| 3 | 1(gesz2) 5(u) 2(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 102 workdays, male laborers, |
| 4 | a a-sza3 lugal-ka gub-ba | water in the field of the king stationed, |
| 5 | 1(gesz2) 4(u) 2(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 122 workdays, male laborers, |
| 6 | kun-zi-da ki-gam-gam-ma gub-ba | stationed at the kunzida station, |
| 7 | ugula ur-{d}szul-pa-e3 | foreman: Ur-Šulpa'e; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | kiszib3 nam-sza3-tam ur-{gesz}gigir szabra | under seal of Namšatam, Ur-gigir, chief household administrator; |
| 2 | mu {d}amar-{d}suen lugal | year: “Amar-Suen is king. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{gesz}gigir | Ur-gigir |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu bar-ra-an | son of Barran, |
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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