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Nisaba 15, 0097 (P453637)
Administrative, Ur III, Irisagrig · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 15, 0097 |
|---|---|
| ID | P453637 |
| Museum no. | Anonymous 453637 |
| Collection | anonymous |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Irisagrig |
| Coordinates | 32.1529, 45.3689 |
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) ma-la-ku udu | 1 slaughtered sheep, |
| 2 | 2(disz) sila3 tu7 2(disz) ku6 | 2 sila3 soup, 2 fish |
| 3 | bi2-la-lum lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Bilalum, the royal messenger, |
| 4 | u4 maszkim sipa-sze3 im-gen-na-a | when he came to the shepherd as overseer, |
| 5 | 1(disz) sila3 tu7 1(disz) ku6 | 1 sila3 soup, 1 fish |
| 6 | a-hu-ni lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Ahuni, the royal messenger, |
| 7 | 1(disz) sila3 tu7 1(disz) ku6 | 1 sila3 soup, 1 fish |
| 8 | bu-la-lum lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Bulalum, the royal messenger, |
| 9 | u4 |BAD3.AN|{ki}-sze3 ba-e-re-sza-a | when to Dūr-šadû |
| 10 | 1(disz) ma-la-ku udu | 1 slaughtered sheep, |
| 11 | zu-zu-a lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Zuzua, royal messenger. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u4 erin2? ki? nam-gala-sze3 im-gen-na-a | When the labor-troops went to the place of the šagala functionary(?) |
| 2 | 1(disz) ma-la-ku udu | 1 slaughtered sheep, |
| 3 | 2(disz) sila3 tu7 2(disz) ku6 | 2 sila3 soup, 2 fish |
| 4 | sza3-iri | the inner city |
| 5 | 2(disz) ma-la-ku udu | 2 slaughtered sheep, |
| 6 | 3(disz) sila3 tu7 3(disz) ku6 | 3 sila3 soup, 3 fish |
| 7 | kaskal-sze3 | to the road |
| 8 | nig2-u2-rum lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Niĝrum, royal messenger |
| 9 | u4 gu4?-x-x-sze3 im-gen-na-a | When he came to the oxen, |
| 10 | szunigin 5(disz) ma-la-ku udu | total: 5 slaughtered sheep |
| 11 | szunigin 1(u) 1(disz) sila3 tu7 | total: 11 sila3 soup |
| 12 | szunigin 1(u) 1(disz) ku6 | total: 11 fish; |
| 13 | zi-ga | booked out |
| 14 | iti ezem-{d}li9-si4 | month: “Festival-of-Lisi,’ |
| 15 | mu en eridu{ki} ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Eridu was installed. |
| left | ||
| 1 | u4 1(u) 7(disz)-kam | 17th day, |
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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