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Nisaba 22, 135 (P406503)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 22, 135 |
|---|---|
| ID | P406503 |
| Museum no. | SM 1909.05.384 |
| 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 ninda | 5 sila3 beer, 5 sila3 bread, |
| 2 | 1(disz) i3-gesz id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 3 | e-ma-ma lu2 {gesz}tukul-gu-<la> | whenever a man with a weapon |
| 4 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 ninda | 5 sila3 beer, 5 sila3 bread, |
| 5 | 1(disz) i3-gesz id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 6 | i-ti-a sukkal | Itia, the vizier |
| 7 | 1(ban2) kasz 1(ban2) ninda lugal | 1 ban2 beer, 1 ban2, royal bread, |
| 8 | 2(disz) i3-gesz id-gur2 | 2 idgur oil, |
| 9 | sa2-du11 u4 2(disz)-kam | regular offerings, 2nd day; |
| 10 | an-ne2-ba-ab-du7 lu2 {gesz}tukul-gu-la | Ane-ba’abbdu, the man of the great weapon |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | nig2-ka9 {d}szul-gi-a-bi2-sze3 gen-na | went to the account of Šulgi-abī |
| 2 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 ninda | 5 sila3 beer, 5 sila3 bread, |
| 3 | 1(disz) i3-gesz id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 4 | dur-ra-i3-li sukkal | Urra-ili, the messenger; |
| 5 | an-sza-an{ki}-ta u3 nibru{ki}-ta gen-na | came from Anšan and Nippur. |
| 6 | 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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