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Nisaba 15, 0659 (P453988)
Administrative, Ur III, Irisagrig · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 15, 0659 |
|---|---|
| ID | P453988 |
| Museum no. | Anonymous 453988 |
| 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(u) 5(asz)? 4(barig) sa-hu?-[x gur] | 15 gur 4 barig ... |
| 2 | 2(asz) 4(barig) 3(ban2) [... gur] | 2 gur 4 barig 3 ban2 |
| 3 | 4(asz)? 1(barig) 1(ban2) [... gur] | 4 gur 1 barig 1 ban2 |
| 4 | 2(asz) 4(ban2) 5(disz) sila3 [... gur] | 2 gur 4 ban2 5 sila3 |
| 5 | 1(asz) 1(barig) 2(ban2) 7(disz) sila3 [... gur] | 1 gur 1 barig 2 ban2 7 sila3 |
| 6 | 4(barig) 1(ban2) 8(disz) sila3 kam-am-[tum] | 4 barig 1 ban2 8 sila3 kammtum |
| 7 | 1(gesz'u) 4(u) 5(asz) gu2 u2-[...] | 105 talents of ..., |
| 8 | 1(gesz'u) 4(u) 5(disz) ir7{muszen} | 105 ravens, |
| 9 | 5(gesz2) 4(u) 7(disz) gesz edin-na | 157 wood from the steppe, |
| 10 | 5(szar2) 4(gesz'u) 7(gesz2) 2(u) 5(disz) sig4 | 385 bricks, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | gu2 gar-ra {gesz}kiri6 | planted plots of orchards |
| 2 | ur-{d}dumu-zi dub-sar | Ur-Dumuzi, the scribe |
| 3 | szu ba-ti | received. |
| 4 | iti szu-gar-ra-ta | from month “Šūgara’ |
| 5 | iti diri sze-sag11-ku5-sze3 | to the extra month “Harvest,’ |
| 6 | mu {d}i-bi2-{d}suen lugal | year: “Ibbi-Suen is king.{d} |
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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