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JCS 28, 238 03 (P466540)
Administrative, Early Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE
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| Designation | JCS 28, 238 03 |
|---|---|
| ID | P466540 |
| Museum no. | Penn — |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Early Old Babylonian · c. 2000 BCE–1900 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 | ||
| 1 | 3(ban2) 6(disz) sila3 1(u) 4(disz) x i3#-[nun] | 3 ban2 6 sila3 14 ... butter oil |
| 2 | 1(ban2) 8(disz) 1/3(disz) sila3 ga-ar3 | 1 ban2 8 1/3 sila3 kashk cheese, |
| 3 | 2(barig) 7(disz) 1/3(disz) sila3 zu2-lum | 2 barig 7 1/3 sila3 dates, |
| 4 | iti udru{duru5} | month “Udru |
| 5 | 3(ban2) 7(disz) 1/2(disz) sila3 i3-nun | 3 ban2 7 1/2 sila3 butter oil, |
| 6 | 2(ban2) ga-ar3 | 2 ban2 of emmer, |
| 7 | 2(barig) 1(ban2) 1(disz) 2/3(disz)# sila3# zu2-lum | 2 barig 1 ban2 1 2/3 sila3 dates |
| 8 | iti# sze-sag11-ku5 | month "Harvest," |
| 9 | 1(ban2)# 7(disz) 1/2(disz) sila3 i3-nun | 1 ban2 7 1/2 sila3 butter oil |
| 10 | [n] ga-ar3 | n cheeses |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | nu-ur2-i3-li2-szu# | Nur-ilišu |
| 2' | szu# ba-an-ti# | received |
| 3' | mu {d}li#-pi2-it#-esz18#-dar# lugal-e en-nin-sun2#-[zi] en {d}nin-[gubalag] uri5#{ki}-[ma] masz2-e i3-[pa3] | year: “Lipit-Ištar, the king, Ennin-sunzi, en priestess of Ningublaga of Ur, by goat, was chosen. |
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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