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Sumer 55, 063 12 (P469550)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Sumer 55, 063 12 |
|---|---|
| ID | P469550 |
| Museum no. | IM 163353 |
| 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 | 4(disz) kusz masz2 ge6 | 4 black goat hides, |
| 2 | 2(disz) kusz udu siki SAR | 2 hides of sheep, wool, |
| 3 | 1(u) kusz [...] kusz [...] | 10 hides |
| 4 | 5(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 5 male laborer workdays, |
| 5 | {gesz#}gigir-ra sag-ri-a | a chariot on the head |
| 6 | u3 szu du11-du11-ga | and the utterances |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 6(disz) kusz udu masz2 hi-a | 6 hides of sheep, billy goats, |
| 2 | pisan? <szu>-dul9 saga# si-ge4-de3 | Basket-of-tablets: good quality šudul offerings |
| 3 | ur-e2-mah szu ba-ti | Ur-Emah received. |
| 4 | 2(disz) KA-GAR 2(disz) sila3 | 2 KA-GAR 2 sila3 |
| 5 | ki lu2-{d}szara2-ta | from Lu-Šara |
| 6 | kiszib3 ensi2-ka | under seal of the governor |
| 7 | iti {d}li9-si4 | month: “Lisi,’ |
| 8 | mu {d}i-bi2-{d}suen lugal | year: “Ibbi-Suen is king.{d} |
| 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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