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PPAC 5, 1587 (P380255)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PPAC 5, 1587 |
|---|---|
| ID | P380255 |
| Museum no. | BM 095962 |
| 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 | 1(u) 6(disz) 4(asz)? gurusz al 7(disz) sar-ta | 16(?) 4(?) male laborers, hoed at 7 sar (per day), |
| 2 | ugula {d}nin-mar{ki}-ka | foreman: Ninmar |
| 3 | 8(disz) gurusz u2 ku5 2(u) sar-ta | 8 male laborers, grass-fed, cut at 20 sar (per day), |
| 4 | lu2 hun-ga2-me | hirelings |
| 5 | 8(disz) gurusz u2 ku5 2(u) sar-ta | 8 male laborers, grass-fed, cut at 20 sar (per day), |
| 6 | ugula ba-zi-ge | foreman: Bazige |
| 7 | 6(disz) gurusz nig2-gul 1(u) 5(disz) sar-ta | 6 male laborers, grain-heaps at 15 sar (per day), |
| 8 | lu2 hun-ga2-me | hirelings |
| 9 | a-sza3 iri-ni | field of his city |
| 10 | 5(disz) 2(asz)? gurusz al 6(disz) sar-ta | 5 2? male laborers, hoed at 6 sar (per day), |
| 11 | ugula {d}nin-mar{ki}-ka | foreman: Ninmar |
| 12 | 6(disz) gurusz u2 ku5 [n] sar-ta | 6 male laborers, grass-fed, cut at n sar per day |
| 13 | lu2 hun-ga2-me | hirelings |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-sza3 {u2}szim# | a field of juniper |
| 2 | iti munu4-gu7 | month: “Malt-feast,’ |
| 3 | u4 2(u) la2 1(disz@t)-kam | the 19th day, |
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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