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Nisaba 22, 079 (P405873)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 22, 079 |
|---|---|
| ID | P405873 |
| Museum no. | SM 1899.02.090 |
| Collection | Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| 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(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 dabin | 5 liters of beer, 5 litres of dabin flour |
| 2 | 1(disz) id-gur2 i3 sza3-iri | 1 Idgur, oil of the inner city, |
| 3 | 1(disz) dug dida du | 1 jug of regular dida beer, |
| 4 | 5(disz) sila3 dabin kaskal-sze3 | 5 sila3 of dabin-flour for the road |
| 5 | puzur4-a-bi2 lu2-[...] | Its puzrištu ... |
| 6 | szuszin{ki}-sze3 du-[...] | ... to Susa |
| 7 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 [...] | 5 sila3 of beer, 5 [sila3 ...] |
| 8 | 1(disz) id-gur2 i3 [sza3-iri] | 1 Idgur, oil of the inner city |
| 9 | 1(disz) dug dida# [...] | 1 jug of dida-beer |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 5(disz) sila3 dabin [kaskal-sze3] | 5 sila3 of dabin flour for the road |
| 2 | szim-dam [...] | ... aromatics |
| 3 | a-dam-[szah2{ki} ...] | Damšaḫ |
| 4 | 3(disz) dug dida [...] | 3 jugs of dida-beer |
| 5 | 1(barig) dabin [...] | 60 litres of dabin-flour |
| 6 | 1/2(disz) sila3 i3 [...] | 1/2 sila3 of ... oil, |
| 7 | bu-ga [muszen-du3] | buga bird |
| 8 | ki muszen-na [...] | At the place of the bird |
| 9 | iti diri sze-sag11-[ku5 ...] | extra month: 'Harvest,' |
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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