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Nisaba 31/2, 013 (P376935)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 31/2, 013 |
|---|---|
| ID | P376935 |
| Museum no. | BM 111156 |
| 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(gesz2) 2(u) gu2 esir2 [x] | 60 talents of ... bitumen |
| 2 | 4(u) gu2 esir2 gul-gul | 40 talents of ebony, destroyed; |
| 3 | 2(u) gu2 esir2 ku3-ta du8-a | 20 talents of pure bitumen, dug |
| 4 | 6(asz) gu2 esir2 apin | 6 talents of bitumen for the plow; |
| 5 | 4(barig) 2(ban2) 5(disz) sila3 esir2 e2-a | 4 barig 2 ban2 5 sila3 bitumen, |
| 6 | 2(ban2) 5(disz) sila3 [esir2] had2 | 2 ban2 5 sila3 esir2 had2 flour |
| 7 | 8(disz) {gesz}a-ra | 8 threshing-sledges |
| 8 | 8(disz) {gesz}a-da | 8 ada logs |
| 9 | 4(disz)# n {gesz}gin2#? ma2 [...] | 4 n shekels barge ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [...] ab-ba | ... of the sea |
| 2' | [...] gur#? | ... gur(?) |
| 3' | [...] x | |
| 4' | [...] GAN2#? | ... field(?) |
| 5' | [...] 1(u) 5(disz)-kam | ... 15th ... |
| 6' | [...] ugula x | ... foreman: |
| 7' | [...]-a ur2?-ra-ni# | ... his lap(?) |
| 8' | [mu] [...]{ki} ba-hul | year: “... was destroyed.{d} |
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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