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Nisaba 04/2, 72 (P405384)
Administrative, Old Babylonian, Uruk · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 04/2, 72 |
|---|---|
| ID | P405384 |
| Museum no. | BM 023361 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Uruk (mod. Warka) |
| Coordinates | 31.3234, 45.6395 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From 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)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | {[m]}⸢EN⸣.[x]-⸢x-x⸣ | Ēšu-beli-e..., |
| 2 | ŠA₃ 39 {lu₂}A.SI.⸢RUM⸣ | 39 prisoners of war |
| 3 | ša i-na ma-at I₃.SI.IN{ki} | which in the land of Isin |
| 4 | u₂-te-ru-ni-šu-nu-ti | they have returned to them |
| 5 | KASKAL 1 ARAD.{d}UTU UGULA MAR.TU LU₂ KI.SUR.RA{ki} | campaign 1 of Warad-Šamaš, overseer of the Amorites, man of Kisura |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na LU₂.UR₃.RA | to the urra-official |
| 2 | nam-ha-ar-ti ta-ri-bu-um LU₂.UR₃.RA | Received by Tarībum, the urra official. |
| 3 | ZI.GA | Issued |
| 4 | NIG₂.ŠU NIG₂.ŠU {d}EN.ZU-še-mi UGULA A.SI.RUM | Under the authority of Sîn-šeme, the overseer of prisoners of war. |
| 5 | {iti}⸢ZIZ₂⸣.A U₄ 11-KAM | Month Šabaṭu, 11th day, |
| 6 | mu ri-im-{[d}a-nu-um] | year: “Rīm-Anum |
| 7 | ⸢unug{ki} u₃⸣ [a₂-dam-bi] | the E-unug, the “house of settlements"(?) |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ta-ri-[bu-um] | Taribum |
| 2 | ⸢DUMU⸣ im-gur-[...] | “(If) a house-born slave is turned into a slave girl |
| 3 | ⸢ARAD⸣ AN.AN.[...] | servant of AN.AN. |
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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