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Nisaba 27, 021 (P407022)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 27, 021 |
|---|---|
| ID | P407022 |
| Museum no. | SM 1911.06.078 |
| 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 | Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) |
| Coordinates | 31.6669, 45.8861 |
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(disz)] a2-bi2-la# | 1 Abila |
| 2 | [1(disz)] lugal-i-ti | 1 Lugal-iti |
| 3 | 1(disz) ur-{d}da-mu | 1 Ur-Damu |
| 4 | 1(disz) a-bu-ni | 1 Abuni, |
| 5 | 1(disz) du10-ga-mu | 1: Dugamu; |
| 6 | 1(disz) lugal-u4-sze-er?-sze3 | 1 Lugal-ušerše, |
| 7 | 1(disz) a-da-ga | 1 Adaga, |
| 8 | sukkal-me-esz2 | the ministers |
| 9 | 1(disz) ba-za-za | 1: Bazaza; |
| 10 | 1(disz) lu2-{d}nansze# | 1 Lu-Nanše |
| 11 | 1(disz) szesz-kal-la | 1 Šeškalla |
| 12 | 1(disz) {d}utu-sa2-bi2 | 1: Utu-sabi |
| 13 | 1(disz) kal-la-mu | 1 Kallamu, |
| 14 | 1(disz) ur-saga# | 1 Ur-saga |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | lu2 maszkim-me-esz2 | the witnesses, |
| 2 | 3(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda 3(disz) gin2 i3 | 3 sila3 beer, 2 sila3, bread, 3 shekels oil, |
| 3 | 2(disz) gin2 naga 5(disz) gin2 szum2 | 2 shekels alkali-plant, 5 shekel of onions, |
| 4 | szunigin 3(ban2) 7(disz) sila3 kasz saga szunigin sila3 <kasz du> | total: 3 ban2 7 sila3 fine beer; total sila3, regular <beer> |
| 5 | szunigin 5(disz) sila3 ninda zi3 sig15 szunigin 2(ban2) 1(disz) sila3 ninda [...] | total: 5 sila3 bread made with fine flour; total: 2 ban2 1 sila3, bread |
| 6 | szunigin 2/3(disz) sila3 la2 1(disz) gin2 i3 | total: 2/3 sila3 less 1 shekel oil; |
| 7 | szunigin 1/3(disz) sila3 6(disz) gin2 naga | total: 1/3 sila3 6 shekels alkali-plant, |
| 8 | szunigin [1(disz) sila3 5(disz)] gin2 szum2 | total: 1 sila3 5 shekels onions |
| 9 | [u4 n-kam] | day n |
| 10 | iti# {d}li9#-[si4] | month "Lisi" |
| 11 | [mu ...] masz2-e# i3-pa3 | Year: “... was chosen by the goat. |
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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