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Nisaba 22, 021 (P412638)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 22, 021 |
|---|---|
| ID | P412638 |
| Museum no. | BM 109825 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| 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(u) dumu dab5-ba 1(ban2) sze-ta | 10 captured children, 1 ban2 barley each |
| 2 | sze-bi 2(asz) gur | its barley: 2 gur |
| 3 | ki di-ku5-ta | from the judge |
| 4 | szu ba-ti | received. |
| 5 | ugula lu2-{d}suen | foreman: Lu-Suen; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | kiszib3 lu2-kal-la u3 lu2-bala-sa6-ga | under seal of Lukalla and Lu-bala-saga; |
| 2 | iti sze-sag11-ku5 | month "Harvest," |
| 3 | mu us2-sa za-ab-sza-li{ki} ba-hul | year after: “Zabšali was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-kal-la | Lukalla |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{d}bil3# | son of Ur-bil |
| seal 2 | ||
| 1 | lu2-bala-[sa6-ga] | Lu-bala-saga |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{d}nin-mar#[{ki}] | son of Ur-Ninmar |
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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