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PPAC 5, 1038 (P378765)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 1038 |
|---|---|
| ID | P378765 |
| Museum no. | BM 087541 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Girsu (mod. Tello) |
| Coordinates | 31.5591, 46.1776 |
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 | 6(gesz2) 1(u) 4(disz) u8 | 184 ewes, |
| 2 | 6(gesz2) 1(u) 4(disz) udu-nita2 | 184 rams, |
| 3 | 3(disz) u8 diri | 3 extra ewes, |
| 4 | 1(gesz2) 5(u) kir11 | 90 female lambs, |
| 5 | 1(gesz2) 2(u) 1(disz) sila4-nita2 | 61 male lambs, |
| 6 | gub-ba-am3 | stationed, |
| 7 | 2(gesz2) 5(u) u8 4(disz) udu-nita2 | 190 ewes, 4 male sheep |
| 8 | 1(u) sila4 | 10 lambs |
| 9 | ri-ri-ga | |
| 10 | la2-ia3 2(disz) u8 1(disz) sila4 | deficit: 2 ewes, 1 lamb |
| 11 | szunigin 1(gesz'u) 5(gesz2) 4(u) 7(disz)! gub-ba | total: 97, stationed; |
| 12 | szunigin 3(gesz2) 4(disz) ri-ri-ga | total: 184 ririga, |
| 13 | szunigin 3(disz) la2-ia3 | total: 3 deficits |
| 14 | ugula du11-ga-zi-da | foreman: Dugazida |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 3(u) 6(disz) u8 | 36 ewes, |
| 2 | 2(gesz2) 1(u) 6(disz) udu-nita2 | 166 rams, |
| 3 | 1(u) 3(disz) kir11 | 13 female lambs, |
| 4 | 1(u) sila4-nita2 | 10 male lambs |
| 5 | gub-ba-am3 | stationed, |
| 6 | 2(u) 4(disz) u8 1(u) 7(disz) udu-nita2 | 24 ewes, 17 rams |
| 7 | ri-ri-ga | |
| 8 | szunigin 3(gesz2) 1(u) 5(disz) gub-ba-am3 | total: 165 stationed; |
| 9 | szunigin 4(u) 1(disz) ri-ri-ga | total: 41 ririga, |
| 10 | ugula szar-ru-um-i3-li2 | foreman: Sharrum-ilī; |
| 11 | udu u3 udu sa6 | sheep and beautiful sheep |
| 12 | nigin2-ba ga2-ga2-dam | all of it is to be brought in. |
| 13 | mu us2-sa ki-masz{ki} ba-hul | year after: “Kimaš was destroyed. |
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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