Unread Atlas
PPAC 5, 1056 (P378819)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | PPAC 5, 1056 |
|---|---|
| ID | P378819 |
| Museum no. | BM 087611 |
| 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 | [...] gurusz 1(barig) sze lugal-ta | ... male laborers, 1 barig barley (per day) from the king |
| 2 | erin2 bala gub-<ba> | troops stationed in the bala |
| 3 | nu-banda3 ur-{d}ba-ba6 | the overseer: Ur-Baba |
| 4 | 7(disz) gurusz 1(barig) bala tusz-a | 7 male laborers, 1 barig bala, stationed, |
| 5 | nu-banda3 su-szim-a | overseer: Sušima |
| 6 | sze-bi 2(asz) 3(barig) gur | its barley: 2 gur 3 barig; |
| 7 | ki ur-{d}nun-gal-ta | from Ur-Nungal; |
| 8 | mu nu-banda3 min-ba-sze3 | to the two-year-old captain, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | kiszib3 ur-{d}nu-musz-da ib2-ra | sealed tablet of Ur-Numušda. |
| 2 | sza3-gal erin2 e2 {d}ga2-tum3-du10 | chief of the troops of the temple of Gatumdu, |
| 3 | iti ezem-{d}ba-ba6 | month: “Festival-of-Baba,’ |
| 4 | i3-dub ambar sur-ra-ta | from the depot of the deep marshes |
| 5 | mu us2-sa si-mu-ru-um{ki} lu-lu-bu{ki} a-ra2 1(u) la2 1(disz@t)-kam ba-hul | year after: “Simurum and Lullubu for the 9th time were destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}nu-musz-da | Ur-Numušda |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu du-du | son of Dudu |
| 4 | sanga uru11{ki} | temple administrator of Urub |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.