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Alustath 140, 485-509 (P499885)
Administrative, Ur III, Garšana · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Alustath 140, 485-509 |
|---|---|
| ID | P499885 |
| Museum no. | IM 160420 |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Garšana |
| Coordinates | 31.4433, 46.1189 |
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 | 3(disz) gurusz szitim | 3 male laborers, builders, |
| 2 | lu2 tu-li2-um{ki} | the man of Tulum |
| 3 | 1(disz) gurusz szitim | 1 male laborer, builder, |
| 4 | lu2 di3-ma-at kal2-bu-um{ki} | the mighty man of Kalbum, |
| 5 | 2(disz) gurusz szitim | 2 male laborers, builders, |
| 6 | lu2 i-zi-in-er3-ra{ki} | the man of Izi-in-Erra |
| 7 | 2(disz) gurusz szitim | 2 male laborers, builders, |
| 8 | lu2 {i3-si}isin2{ki} | the man of Isin |
| 9 | 3(disz) gurusz szitim ARAD2 e2-A | 3 male laborers, builder, servant of Ea. |
| 10 | szunigin 1(u) 1(disz) gurusz szitim | total: 11 laborers, builders; |
| 11 | sza3-bi-ta | therefrom: |
| 12 | 8(disz) gurusz szitim | 8 male laborers, builders, |
| 13 | gi-sal e2-til-la gul-de3 gub-ba | standing at the reed screen of the end of the house, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(disz) gurusz szitim | 1 male laborer, builder, |
| 2 | ma szub-ba sig4 gub-ba | the abandoned house, the brickwork stationed |
| 3 | 1(disz) gurusz szitim | 1 male laborer, builder, |
| 4 | GIN2-bala {gesz}kiri6 zabala4{ki} du3-de3 gub-ba | he turned back, and planted the orchard of Zabalam. |
| 5 | 1(disz) gurusz szitim | 1 male laborer, builder, |
| 6 | a2-ag2-ga2 ki# szu#-kab#-ta#-<sze3> de6-<a> | May the command go to the place of the šukab priest |
| 7 | szunigin 1(u) 1(disz) gurusz szitim | total: 11 laborers, builders; |
| 8 | zi-ga-am3 | booked out, |
| 9 | gurum2-ak szitim-e-ne | inspections of the builders |
| 10 | sza3 gar-sza-an#-na#{ki#} | in Garšana |
| 11 | giri3 {d}iszkur-illat | via Adad-tillati |
| 12 | iti u5-bi2-gu7 | month: “Ubi-gū7, |
| 13 | mu us2-sa {d}szu-{d}suen lugal-e bad3 mar-tu ba-du3 mu us2-sa-bi# | year following: “Šu-Suen, the king, the Amorite wall was erected; year following that.’ |
| left | ||
| 1 | u4 2(disz)-kam | 2nd day, |
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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