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Nisaba 15, 0196 (P453698)
Administrative, Ur III, Irisagrig · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 15, 0196 |
|---|---|
| ID | P453698 |
| Museum no. | Adra 017 |
| Collection | Adra, Jawad, Heri, Lebanon |
| 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) udu sze6-ga2 | 1 sheep, šega, |
| 2 | 2(disz) sila3 tu7 4(disz) ku6 | 2 sila3 soup, 4 fish |
| 3 | ARAD2-hul3-la szagina | ARAD-hula, general |
| 4 | 2(disz) sila3 tu7 2(disz) ku6 | 2 sila3 soup, 2 fish |
| 5 | u-bar-um lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Ubarum, royal messenger. |
| 6 | 2(disz) sila3 tu7 2(disz) ku6 | 2 sila3 soup, 2 fish |
| 7 | ur-esz3-gi-la2 lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Ur-ešgila, messenger of the king |
| 8 | u4 erin2 sze gur10-gur10-de3 zi-zi-de3 im-e-re-sza-a | When the labor-troops are to gather the barley, to rise up, |
| 9 | 2(disz) sila3 tu7 2(disz) ku6 | 2 sila3 soup, 2 fish |
| 10 | ma#-nu-um-ki-be-li2 lu2 ba-ba-ti | Mannum-kibēlī, the slain man |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u4 i3-nun-sze3 im-gen-na-a | when he went to the ghee, |
| 2 | 1(disz) sila3 tu7 1(disz) ku6 | 1 sila3 soup, 1 fish |
| 3 | nam-ha-ni lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Namhani, the royal messenger, |
| 4 | 1(disz) sila3 tu7 1(disz) ku6 | 1 sila3 soup, 1 fish |
| 5 | ur-{d}en-lil2-la2 sagi | Ur-Enlila, cupbearer |
| 6 | 1(disz) sila3 tu7 1(disz) ku6 | 1 sila3 soup, 1 fish |
| 7 | a-bil-a-ti sagi | Abilati, cupbearer |
| 8 | u4 |BAD3.AN|{ki}-sze3 ba-e-re-sza-a | when to Dūr-šadû |
| 9 | 1(disz) sila3 tu7 1(disz) ku6 | 1 sila3 soup, 1 fish |
| 10 | ur-an-sza-an lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Ur-anšan, the messenger of the king. |
| 11 | [u4] |BAD3.AN|{ki}-ta | from Dūr |
| 12 | [ki] lugal-sze3 ba-gen-na-a | having gone to the king |
| 13 | [zi-ga] | booked out |
| 14 | [iti] szu-gar-ra | month: “Šugara, |
| 15 | [mu] {d}szu-{d}suen lugal | year: “Šū-Suen is king. |
| left | ||
| 1 | u4 n-kam | the nth 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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