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Nisaba 22, 162 (P406567)
Letter, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 22, 162 |
|---|---|
| ID | P406567 |
| Museum no. | SM 1909.05.457 |
| Collection | Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Girsu (mod. Tello) |
| Coordinates | 31.5591, 46.1776 |
Transliteration (ATF)
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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(disz) udu {d}nin-mar{ki}-sze3 | 1 sheep for Ninmar, |
| 2 | sza3-ge kar2 lugal | in the royal quay |
| 3 | szu-{d}utu sagi | Šū-Utu, cupbearer |
| 4 | 1(disz) udu 2(disz) masz2 siskur2 ma2 gesz-i3 | 1 sheep, 2 billy goats, siskur-offering of the oil-boat; |
| 5 | giri3 lu2-banda3{da} sukkal | via Lu-banda, the messenger; |
| 6 | szuszin{ki}-sze3 du-ni | to Susa went, |
| 7 | 1(disz) masz2 sza3-iri | 1 billy goat, Ša-iri, |
| 8 | 1(disz) masz2 kaskal-sze3 | 1 billy goat for the road |
| 9 | elam si-u3{ki}-me | Elam and Sîn |
| 10 | giri3 dingir-kal sukkal | via Dingir-kal, the messenger; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | si-u3{ki}-sze3 du-ni | to Sîn went, |
| 2 | iti amar-a-a-si | month: “Amar-asi, |
| 3 | 1(disz) udu 1(disz) masz2 balag-u4-da gub-ba | 1 sheep, 1 billy goat, stationed, |
| 4 | giri3 e2-zi-mu | via Ezimu |
| 5 | iti ezem-{d}ba-ba6 | month: “Festival-of-Baba,’ |
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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