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Nisaba 26, 079 (P376106)

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

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Designation	Nisaba 26, 079
ID	P376106
Museum no.	BM 110246
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 col 1
1	[...] lugal	... king
2	[...]-ta	from
3	[... {gesz}]asalx(\|A.TU\|)	... asal tree
4	[...]-ta	from
5	[...]
6	[...]-ka	of ...
7	3(u) 4(disz) 1(u) gin2 gurusz u4 [1(disz)-sze3]	34 10 shekels workdays, male laborers
8	5(u) 6(disz) {gesz}asalx(\|A.TU\|)	56 asal trees,
9	[...] gurusz 2(disz) kusz3-ta	... male laborers, 2 cubits each
10	[la2]-ia3-am3	deficit
11	[...] 1/3(disz) sila3 4(disz) gin2 [...]	... 1/3 sila3 4 shekels
12	3(gesz2) 5(u) 2/3(disz) 5(disz) gin2 pesz	285 2/3 shekels peš-seeds
13	2(szar2) 3(gesz'u) 8(gesz2) 4(u) 7(disz) 1/2(disz) 5(disz) gin2 sa gi	217 1/2 5 shekels of reed bundles,
obverse col 2
1	[...]-ta#	... from
2	8(gesz2)# 4(u)# [...] u2	420 ... grass
3	3(u) 1(disz)# 1/3(disz)# [...] ra#	31 1/3 ...
4	n 3(disz)# 1/3(disz)# [... x]-na	n 3 1/3 na
5	8(disz)# gin2# [... gurusz] u4 [1(disz)-sze3]	8 shekels ..., male laborer for 1 day
6	6(disz)# x x [gi] ku5-a [...]	6 ... reeds cut ...
7	2(u) 1(disz) 1/2(disz) [x] {gesz}[...]	21 1/2 ... wood
8	[...]-ta	from
9	3(gesz2) 5(u) 2(disz) {gesz}asalx(\|A.TU\|)	132 date palms
10	gurusz 1(disz) 1/2(disz) gin2-ta	male laborers: 1 1/2 shekels each,
11	8(disz) {gesz}asalx(\|A.TU\|) gurusz 1(disz) 1/3(disz) [gin2]-ta	8 male laborers, 1 1/3 shekels each
12	1(u) 4(disz) {gesz}asalx(\|A.TU\|) [...]-su kusz3-ta	14 (pieces of) ...-su-wood, cubits each
13	3(disz) {gesz}u3-suh5 6(disz)! kusz3-ta	3 pickaxes, 6 cubits each,
14	4(disz) {gesz}u3-suh5 5(disz) kusz3-ta	4 pickaxes, 5 cubits each,
reverse col 1
1	2(u) {gesz}u3-suh5 4(disz) kusz3-ta	20 pickaxes, 4 cubits each,
2	1(u) 2(disz) {gesz}[u3-suh5 3(disz)] kusz3-[ta]	12 u-suḫ, 3 cubits each
3	4(u) 3(disz) {gesz}[...] ug3 kusz3#-[ta]	43 (pieces of) ... wood, people, cubits each
4	2(u) {gesz}szinig# [... kusz3]-ta#	20 ... cubits each
5	5(u) 7(disz) {gesz}haszhur 1(disz) kusz3-ta	57 apple trees, 1 cubit each
6	1(gesz2) 1(u) {gesz}haszhur 2/3(disz) kusz3-ta	70 apple trees, 2/3 cubit each,
7	3(u) gesz hirinx(KWU318)	30 hirin trees,
8	9(disz) {gesz}ab-ba 3(disz) 1/2(disz) kusz3-ta	9 bolts, 3 1/2 cubits each,
9	1(u) 5(disz) ma-na mangaga	15 minas of mangaga,
10	7(disz) {gesz}a2-an ba-an-du8-du8	7 hoes were hoed,
11	diri-ga-am3	surpassing
reverse col 2
1	diri la2-ia3 du11-ga	surplus, deficit imposed
2	gi#-na a-gu	regular offering of Agu
3	[dub]-sar gaszam	scribe of gašam
4	[mu hu]-uh2-nu-ri[{ki} ba]-hul#	year: “Ḫuḫnuri was destroyed.‭
seal 1
1	a-gu	Agu,
2	dub-sar	scribe
3	dumu lugal-e2-mah-e	son of Lugal-emaḫe,

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