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Nisaba 34, 0156 (P469205)

Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE

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Designation	Nisaba 34, 0156
ID	P469205
Museum no.	RBC 00167
Collection	J. Rosen Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Language	Sumerian
Period	Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
Genre	Administrative
Find spot	Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)
Coordinates	31.6669, 45.8861

Transliteration (ATF)

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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) 1(disz)] gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3	11 male laborer workdays
2	ma2-la2-a kesz2-a	barge bound,
3	8(disz) gurusz u4 1(u) 6(disz)-sze3	8 male laborers for 16 days
4	umma{ki}-ta	from Umma
5	e2-te-na-sze3 ma2 la2-a	to the Etena house barge moored
6	gid2-da umma{ki}-sze3	the length to Umma
7	ma2 su3 gu2-ra#	a boat with a long neck
reverse
1	1(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3	10 male laborer workdays
2	ma2-a la2-a ba-al-la	barge unloaded,
3	u3 ga2-nun du3-a	and built the storehouse
4	kiszib3# bi2-du11-ga	under seal of Biduga
5	ugula ur-e2-nun-na	foreman: Ur-Enunna;
6	[iti pa4]-u2-e	month: “Pa'ue,’
7	[mu ha]-ar#-szi{ki} [ki-masz{ki} ba]-hul#	year: “Ḫarši and Kimash were destroyed.‭
seal 1
1	bi2-du11-ga	he had spoken
2	dub-sar	scribe
3	dumu la-a-sa6	son of La’asa

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