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PPAC 5, 1278 (P379571)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 1278 |
|---|---|
| ID | P379571 |
| Museum no. | BM 088594 |
| 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 | 5(asz) gu2 4(u) 7(disz) 2/3(disz) ma-na 4(disz) gin2 igi-6(disz)-gal2 6(disz) sze siki ak hi-a | 5 talents 47 2/3 minas 4 1/6 shekels 6 barleycorns, inspected, |
| 2 | 7(asz) gu2 4(u) 1(disz) ma-na 1(u) 3(disz) gin2 igi-6(disz)-gal2 6(disz) sze siki mug | 7 talents 41 minas 13 1/6 shekels 6 barleycorns, wool of the mug; |
| 3 | 1(gesz'u) 6(gesz2) 2(disz) sa gu | 62 bundles of carnelian, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | si-i3-tum nig2-[ka9-ak] | account of |
| 2 | ki lu2-usz-gi#-[na-ta] | from Lu-ushgina |
| 3 | kiszib3 lu2-{d}EN-[...] | under seal of Lu-Bēl- |
| 4 | giri3 lu2-{d}[ba-ba6] | via Lu-Baba |
| 5 | iti sze-sag11-ku5 u4 [1(u) 3(disz) ba-zal] | the month of Addarum, the day 13 passed |
| 6 | mu na-ru2-a-mah-[ta] | from year: “Narua-maḫ’ |
| 7 | iti sze-sag11-ku5 u4 5(disz) ba-zal | the month of Addarum, the day 5 passed; |
| 8 | mu ma2-gur8-mah ba-dim2-sze3 | to the year: “The great barge was fashioned;’ |
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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