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Nisaba 23, 134 (P376457)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 23, 134 |
|---|---|
| ID | P376457 |
| Museum no. | BM 110559 |
| 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 | 1(u) 6(disz) 1/2(disz) gurusz u4 2(disz)-sze3 | 16 1/2 male laborer workdays, |
| 2 | umma{ki}-ta | from Umma |
| 3 | du6#-gesz-i3-ka-sze3 | to Dugeš-ika |
| 4 | ma2 su3 gid2-da | long boats |
| 5 | u4 2(disz)-sze3 sze gesz e3-a u3 ma2-a <si>-ga | for 2 workdays, barley harvested and barge loaded, |
| 6 | u4 1(disz)-sze3 i7 sal4-la-sze3 | for 1 day to the Salla canal |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ma2 gid2-da | barge punted |
| 2 | u4 1(disz)-sze3 sze ba-al-la | for 1 day barley rations carried, |
| 3 | sze bala-a u3 guru7-a im ur3!#-ra | barley bala and silo granaries, clay heaps |
| 4 | ugula tab-szax(LIL)-la | foreman: Tabšala, |
| 5 | kiszib3 ur-{d}szara2 | under seal of Ur-Šara; |
| 6 | mu en eridu#{ki} ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Eridu was installed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}szara2 | Ur-Šara |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu szesz-kal-la | son of Šeškalla |
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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