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Sumer 55, 059 09 (P469547)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Sumer 55, 059 09 |
|---|---|
| ID | P469547 |
| Museum no. | IM 163350 |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| 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)
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) kusz udu niga | 1 hide of grain-fed sheep, |
| 2 | 1(disz) kusz udu | 1 sheep hide, |
| 3 | 1(disz) kusz sila4 | 1 lamb skin, |
| 4 | 2(u) la2 2(disz@t)? kusz masz2 | 20 less 2 goat hides |
| 5 | ugu2 lugal-ma2-gur8-re ba-a-gar | incumbent on Lugal-magure was placed. |
| 6 | mu ma2-gur8 mah ba-dim2 | year: “The great barge was fashioned. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 5(u) 5(disz) kusz udu | 55 sheep skins, |
| 2 | 2(u) kusz masz2 | 20 goat hides, |
| 3 | 3(disz) kusz sila4 | 3 lamb hides, |
| 4 | kiszib3 lugal-ma2-gur8-re | under seal of Lugal-magure |
| 5 | ki lu2-{d}szara2-ta | from Lu-Šara |
| 6 | ensi2-ke4 ba-an-dab5 | the governor seized |
| 7 | mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal-e e2 {d}szara2 umma{ki} mu-du3 | year: “Šu-Suen, the king, the house of Šara in Umma erected. |
| seal 1 col 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}i-bi2-{d}suen lugal | Ibbi-Suen, king |
| 2 | lugal kal-ga | mighty king |
| 3 | lugal uri5{ki}-ma | king of Ur |
| 4 | lugal an-ub-da limmu2-ba | king of the four quarters |
| seal 1 col 2 | ||
| 1 | da-da-ga | Dadaga |
| 2 | ensi2 | governor |
| 3 | umma{ki} | of Umma |
| 4 | ARAD2-zu | your servant. |
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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