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Nisaba 23, 020 (P376087)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 23, 020 |
|---|---|
| ID | P376087 |
| Museum no. | BM 110227 |
| 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) 5(disz) gurusz sza3-gu4 | 45 male laborers, oxen-drivers |
| 2 | 1(gesz2) 4(u) 1(disz) gurusz hun-ga2 | 91 male laborers, hired |
| 3 | {gesz}dih2 ku5-ra2 1(u) 5(disz) sar-ta | cut logs at 15 sar (per day) |
| 4 | a-sza3 a-u2-da gu!-[la] | field Great Auda |
| 5 | 1(gesz2) 1(u) 3(disz) gurusz sza3-gu4 | 93 male laborers, oxen-drivers, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(gesz2) 4(u) 2(disz) gurusz hun-ga2 | 122 hirelings, |
| 2 | x [x] zu2-lum 1(u) 2(disz) sar-ta | ... dates, 12 sar each |
| 3 | a-sza3 {d}szara2-he2-gal2 | field Šara-hegal, |
| 4 | ugula ur-mes | foreman: Ur-mes; |
| 5 | kiszib3 lugal-inim-gi-na | under seal of Lugal-inim-gina |
| 6 | mu si-ma-num2{ki} ba-hul | year: “Simanum was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-inim-gi-na | Lugal-inim-gina |
| 2 | dumu lugal-nesag-e | son of Lugal-nesage, |
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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