SC-UCLA — (P388587)
Business / Contracts, ED IIIb, Umma · c. 2500 BCE–2340 BCE
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| Designation | SC-UCLA — |
|---|---|
| ID | P388587 |
| Museum no. | SC-UCLA — |
| Collection | Cotsen Collection of Cuneiform Tablets, Special Collections, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | ED IIIb · c. 2500 BCE–2340 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts |
| Find spot | Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) |
| Coordinates | 31.6669, 45.8861 |
English translation
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| Line | English |
|---|---|
| obverse col 2 1 | Ur-kusu |
| obverse col 2 2 | metal |
| obverse col 2 3 | he exchanged. |
| obverse col 2 5 | its administrator; |
| obverse col 3 5 | a servant of Shara; |
| obverse col 3 7 | a potter; |
| obverse col 4 5 | its scribe; |
| obverse col 4 6 | witnesses. |
| reverse col 1 1 | 2 shekels of precious metal (silver?); |
| reverse col 1 2 | 2 (units of) bronze; |
| reverse col 1 4 | 1 pretty thing; |
| reverse col 1 6 | The temple administrator DU.DU, its scribe. |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse col 1 | ||
| 1 | 1(u@c) ur#-x | |
| 2 | 2(asz@c) 1(asz@c@90) gan2# |AH.A|# e3 | |
| 3 | 1(asz@c) sig4# edin | |
| 4 | 1(asz@c) gan2# e2-e2 ur# | |
| 5 | 1(asz@c) gan2# du6# buru4#{muszen} | |
| obverse col 2 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}ku3-su3 | |
| 2 | an-na | |
| 3 | e-sze3-sa10 | |
| 4 | 1(asz@c) kur-da-du7 | |
| 5 | maszkim-bi | |
| 6 | 1(asz@c) ama-bara2-si | |
| 7 | 1(asz@c)# e2 x x | |
| 8 | 1(asz@c) ka#-x gesz dilim2 x | |
| obverse col 3 | ||
| 1 | 1(asz@c) ur-{d}gibil6 | |
| 2 | 1(asz@c) {d}BU | |
| 3 | 1(asz@c) e2-DU-DU | |
| 4 | 1(asz@c) szah2-tur | |
| 5 | ur-{d}szara2 | |
| 6 | 1(asz@c) lugal-ezem | |
| 7 | bahar4 | |
| 8 | 1(asz@c)# U4# A2# x | |
| 9 | x-[...] | |
| obverse col 4 | ||
| 1 | 1(asz@c)# x-bara2-e3# | |
| 2 | 1(asz@c) szah2-x | |
| 3 | 1(asz@c) lugal-DU | |
| 4 | 1(asz@c) ur-{d}gibil6 | |
| 5 | dub-sar-bi# | |
| 6 | lu2#-ki#-inim# | |
| reverse col 1 | ||
| 1 | SIG2-bar#? 2(asz@c) ku3 gin2 | |
| 2 | 2(asz@c) zabar | |
| 3 | 2(asz@c) ku3-bi gin2 | |
| 4 | 1(asz@c) nig2-sa6-ga# | |
| 5 | 1(asz@c) abzu-banda3 MUG gu | |
| 6 | sanga DU-DU dub-sar-bi | |
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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