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PPAC 5, 1118 (P378957)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 1118 |
|---|---|
| ID | P378957 |
| Museum no. | BM 087781 |
| 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 | 3(disz) nu-banda3-gu4 4(barig) sze lugal-ta | 3 oxen managers at 4 barig (per day), |
| 2 | 1(u) 5(disz) engar 2(barig)-ta | 15 plowmen at 2 barig (a day) |
| 3 | 1(u) 5(disz) dumu da-ba 1(barig)-ta | 15 sons of Daba, at 1 barig each |
| 4 | 1(u) 4(disz) dumu gu4-gur 1(barig)-ta | 14 gur oxen, 1 barig (= 60 sila3) each |
| 5 | sze-bi 1(u) 4(asz) 1(barig) gur | its barley: 14 gur 1 barig; |
| 6 | sze ur5-ra e2 nam-ha-ni | the barley rations of the house of Namhani |
| 7 | sze szuku-ra ensi2 | barley rations of the governor |
| 8 | ki ur-nigar{gar}-ta | from Ur-nigar; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | i3-dub {d}nin-hur-sag lu2 ku3-nun | the depot of Ninḫursag, the man of silver |
| 2 | kiszib3 a-kal-la szabra | under seal of Akalla, the household manager; |
| 3 | iti amar-a-a-si | month: “Amar-asi, |
| 4 | mu us2-sa ki-masz{ki} ba-hul | year after: “Kimaš was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | a-kal-la | Akalla |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ab-ba | son of Abba |
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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