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Nisaba 25, 50 (P449037)
Administrative, ED I-II, Ur · c. 2900 BCE–2600 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 25, 50 |
|---|---|
| ID | P449037 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | ED I-II · c. 2900 BCE–2600 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) |
| Coordinates | 30.9607, 46.1063 |
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 col 1 | ||
| 1 | 5(N01@f) , GAR | 5 GAR, |
| 2 | 1(N14@f) , SZAM2# RU | 10 gur, the price of a ... |
| 3 | aya2-abzu-mud | Aya-abzu-mud |
| 4 | 2(N14@f) , sze sila3 | 20 sila3 barley, |
| 5 | me E2~b-si#? UET2_218 | the divine powers of the Ebsi temple, the 21st day |
| obverse col 2 | ||
| 1 | 4(N14) , sze sila3 IGI-BUR RA ISZ | 4 bur3 barley, sila3 ... |
| 2 | 1(N01@f) , sze ar3 ezem nag | 1 nanny goat, barley-fed, for the ŋešu-festival of drinking. |
| 3 | kindagal | (a kindagal plant) |
| 4 | 1(N01) , kasz sag | 1 head-beer |
| 5 | 1(N01) , kasz sze | 1 litre of barley beer |
| 6 | 3(N14) , sze sila3 | 30 sila3 barley, |
| reverse col 1 | ||
| 1 | 1(N14) , ninda | 10 ninda |
| 2 | aya2-abzu-si | Aya-abbusi, |
| 3 | 2(N01@f) , kasz sze | 2 (gur) of barley beer |
| 4 | 1(N01@f) , kasz sag# | 1 jar of head-beer |
| 5 | 2(N14@f) , ninda | 20 ninda |
| 6 | 4(N14@f) , sze sila3 | 40 sila3 barley, |
| 7 | en-unu-du10 gal-nar | Enunudu, the chief musician |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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