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Nisaba 23, 144 (P376502)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 23, 144 |
|---|---|
| ID | P376502 |
| Museum no. | BM 110605 |
| 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)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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 | 5(disz) gurusz | 5 male laborers |
| 2 | ugula lugal-ku3-zu | foreman: Lugal-kuzu; |
| 3 | 1(u) ugula lugal-iti-da | 10, foreman: Lugal-itida; |
| 4 | 4(disz) ugula szesz-kal-la | 4, foreman: Šeškalla; |
| 5 | 1(disz) ugula ur-{gesz}gigir | 1 foreman: Ur-gigir, |
| 6 | ugula da-da-ga | foreman: Dadaga |
| 7 | 1(u) 2(disz) ugula tab-szax(LIL)-la | 12, foreman: Tabšala; |
| 8 | 8(disz) ugula lu2-giri17-zal | 8, foreman: Lu-girizal; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(u) la2 1(disz) ugula ur-saga | 9 foreman: Ur-saga, |
| 2 | 1(u) ugula {d}szara2-a-mu | 10, foreman: Šara-amu; |
| 3 | 4(disz) ugula ur-{d}szul-pa-e3 | 4, foreman: Ur-Šulpa’e; |
| 4 | gurum2 ak u4 1(u) 2(disz)-kam | inspections performed on the 12th day; |
| 5 | {u2}gug4? SIG7-a | yellow gug plant |
| 6 | tir ka i7-da | from the mouth of the river |
| 7 | iti {d}dumu-zi | month: “Dumuzi,’ |
| 8 | mu si-ma-num2{ki} ba-hul | year: “Simanum was destroyed. |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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