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Nisaba 22, 159 (P406494)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 22, 159 |
|---|---|
| ID | P406494 |
| Museum no. | SM 1909.05.375 |
| 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 | 1(ban2) ninda ur-gi7 gal-gal | 1 ban2 of large dog-bread, |
| 2 | 2(disz) sila3 ad-da | 2 sila3: Adda; |
| 3 | 2(disz) sila3 ku5-da | 2 sila3 kuda |
| 4 | 2(ban2) 4(disz) sila3 dub-sar tur-tur | 2 ban2 4 sila3: the junior scribe |
| 5 | 5(disz) sila3 mar-tu munus | 5 sila3 Amurru woman's milk, |
| 6 | 6(disz) sila3 ur-e2-dar-a | 6 sila3: Ur-Edara; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 5(disz) sila3 ninda 1(disz) uzu-ur2 | 5 sila3 bread, 1 ur-cut; |
| 2 | ARAD2-{d}nanna sagi | Warad-Nanna, cupbearer |
| 3 | 2(disz) sila3 i3-ka-num2 aga3-us2 | 2 sila3: Ikanum, soldier; |
| 4 | lu2 lagasz{ki}-da gen-na | the man who went with Lagaš |
| 5 | zi-ga u4 1(disz)-kam | booked out, 1st day |
| 6 | iti mu-szu-du7 | month: “mušudu, |
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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