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Nisaba 22, 136 (P406504)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 22, 136 |
|---|---|
| ID | P406504 |
| Museum no. | SM 1909.05.385 |
| 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 3(disz) sila3 zi3 | 5 sila3 beer, 3 sila₃ flour, |
| 2 | 1(disz) i3 id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 3 | an-ne2-ba-du7 lu2 {gesz}tukul | Ane-badu, the man with weapons |
| 4 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 3(disz) sila3 zi3 | 5 sila3 beer, 3 sila₃ flour, |
| 5 | 1(disz) i3 id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 6 | lu2-sza-lim lu2 {gesz}tukul-gu-<la> | Lu-šalim, the man of the weapon |
| 7 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 3(disz) sila3 zi3 | 5 sila3 beer, 3 sila₃ flour, |
| 8 | 1(disz) i3 id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 9 | lu2-banda3{da} sukkal | Lu-banda, vizier |
| 10 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 3(disz) sila3 zi3 | 5 sila3 beer, 3 sila₃ flour, |
| 11 | 1(disz) i3 id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 12 | a-bu-ni mangaga-sze3 gen-na | went to his father in Manga. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 3(disz) [sila3 zi3] | 5 sila3 beer, 3 qû flour |
| 2 | 1(disz) i3 id-[gur2] | 1 idgur oil |
| 3 | ur-{d}utu sukkal# | Ur-Utu, the messenger |
| 4 | 3(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 zi3 | 3 sila3 beer, 2 sila₃ flour, |
| 5 | 1(disz) i3 id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 6 | mar-tu-sa6-ga | Martusaga |
| 7 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz szu-en-ra | 5 sila3 of šu-enra beer, |
| 8 | 3(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 zi3 | 3 sila3 beer, 2 sila₃ flour, |
| 9 | 1(disz) i3 id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 10 | hu-hu-ni mar-tu | the Amorite caravan |
| 11 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz szu-{d}utu sukkal | 5 sila3 beer for Šū-Utu, the messenger; |
| 12 | zi-ga u4 1(u)-kam | booked out, 10th day; |
| 13 | iti ezem-{d}dumu-zi | month: “Festival-of-Dumuzi,’ |
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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