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Nisaba 23, 061 (P376189)

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

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Designation	Nisaba 23, 061
ID	P376189
Museum no.	BM 110344
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	3(gesz2) 3(u) 2(disz) 5/6(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 al ak 3(disz) sar-ta	292 5/6 workdays, male laborers, hoed, 3 sar (per day),
2	3(gesz2) 3(u) 1/2(disz) gurusz al 4(disz) sar-ta	390 1/2 male laborers, hoed at 4 sar (per day),
3	3(gesz2) 1(u) 8(disz) gurusz al 5(disz) sar-ta	198 male laborers, hoed at 5 sar (per day),
4	1(gesz2) 4(u) gurusz al 6(disz) sar-ta	60 male laborers, hoed at 6 sar (per day),
5	2(gesz2) 2(u) 6(disz) 1/2(disz) gurusz {gesz}dih3! 1(u) 2(disz) sar-ta	166 1/2 male laborers (and) diḫu workers at 12 sar (a day),
6	5(u) 5(disz) 1/2(disz) gurusz {gesz}dih3! 1(u) 5(disz) sar-ta	55 1/2 male laborers, rakes at 15 sar (per day)
7	3(gesz2) 5(u) 7(disz) 1/2(disz) <gurusz> {gesz}dih3! 2(u) sar-ta	157 1/2 male laborers, hoed at 20 sar (per day)
8	7(disz) gurusz {u2}kiszi17 1(u) 6(disz) sar-ta	7 male laborers, husks at 16 sar (per day)
9	2(u) 3(disz) 1/2(disz) gurusz {gesz}nig2-gul ak 1(u) 5(disz) sar-ta	23 1/2 male laborers, nigul-workers, at 15 sar (per day),
10	3(u) 3(disz) gurusz gi zex(SIG7)-a 2(u) sar-ta	33 male laborers, reed bundles spread out at 20 sar (per day),
11	5(gesz2) 2(u) 1(disz) gurusz gi ku5 1(u) 2(disz) sar-ta	141 male laborers, reed cut at 12 sar (per day),
12	4(gesz2) 4(u) 6(disz) 1/2(disz) <gurusz> gi ku5 1(u) 5(disz) sar-ta	446 1/2 male laborers, reed cut at 15 sar (a day),
13	1(gesz2) 5(u) gurusz gi ku5 1(u) 6(disz) sar-ta	60 male laborers, reed cut at 16 sar (per day),
14	[n] 7(disz) gurusz gi ku5 2(u) sar-ta	n+7 male laborers, reed cut at 20 sar (per day)
15	9(disz) gurusz gi ku5 2(u) 5(disz) sar-ta	9 male laborers, reed cut at 25 sar (per day),
reverse
1	[n] 2(disz) gurusz {u2}hirinx(KWU318)?-na bu3-ra 5(disz) sar-ta	n+2 male laborers, hirinnu-plant, grown, at 5 sar (per day)
2	6(gesz2) 4(u) 3(disz) 1/2(disz) gurusz ab-sin2-ta la-ag ri-ri-ga	343 1/2 male laborers from the furrows ...
3	szunigin 1(gesz'u) 6(gesz2) 2(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 a2 6(disz) sze sila3-ta	total: 720 workdays, male laborers, labor of 6 barley sila3 each
4	szunigin 2(gesz'u) 5(gesz2) 1(u) 3(disz) 1/3(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 a2 5(disz) sila3-ta	total: 123 1/3 workdays, male laborers, labor of 5 sila3 each;
5	a2 lu2 hun-ga2 a-sza3-ge kin ak	labor of hirelings, work in the field
6	a-sza3 gu2-edin-na	field Gu-edina,
7	ugula a-ab-ba	foreman: Ayabba;
8	kiszib3 lugal-ku3-zu	under seal of Lugal-kuzu
9	mu ha-ar-szi{ki} ki-masz{ki} ba-hul	year: “Ḫarši and Kimash were destroyed.‭
seal 1
1	lugal-ku3-zu	Lugal-kuzu
2	dub-sar	scribe
3	dumu lugal-e2-mah-e	son of Lugal-emaḫe,

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