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LB 0040 (P388609)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | LB 0040 |
|---|---|
| ID | P388609 |
| Museum no. | LB 0040 |
| Collection | de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 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(gesz2) 5(u) 4(barig)? 3(ban2) zi3 gur lugal | 100 gur 4 barig 3 ban2 flour, royal (measure), |
| 2 | sza3-bi-ta | therefrom: |
| 3 | 1(gesz2) 2(asz) gur | 62 gur |
| 4 | a-ra2 [1(disz)]-kam | 1st time |
| 5 | x [...] gur | ... gur |
| 6 | [a]-ra2# [2(disz)]-kam | 2nd time |
| 7 | x [...] x | |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-ra2 3(disz)-kam | 3 times |
| 2 | szu-nigin2 1(gesz2) 5(u) 2(ban2) zi3 gur lugal | total: 62 gur 2 ban2 flour, royal (measure), |
| 3 | ma2-a si-ga | barge punted, |
| 4 | la2-ia3 3(barig) 1(ban2) | deficit: 3 barig 1 ban2 |
| 5 | e2 ba-gara2 | the house of Bagara |
| 6 | u3 e2 {d}ga2-tum3-du10 | and the temple of Gatumdu |
| 7 | giri3 nig2-u2-rum | via Niĝ-urum |
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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