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BM 021246 (P499905)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BM 021246 |
|---|---|
| ID | P499905 |
| Museum no. | BM 021246 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Girsu (mod. Tello) |
| Coordinates | 31.5591, 46.1776 |
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(gesz2) 2(u) 5(disz) [udu] | 185 sheep |
| 2 | 1(gesz2) 5(u) 8(disz) masz2 | 108 billy goats, |
| 3 | sza3-bi-ta | therefrom: |
| 4 | 1(gesz2) 8(disz) udu-gal | 68 full-grown sheep |
| 5 | 1(gesz2) 3(u) 3(disz) udu | 93 sheep, |
| 6 | 1(gesz2) 3(u) 4(disz) masz2 | 104 billy goats, |
| 7 | kiszib3-ba-a | under seal |
| 8 | ugu2-a ga2-ga2 | on my account set |
| 9 | mu-kux(DU) | delivery; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | la2-ia3 4(u) [4(disz)] udu | deficit: 44 sheep |
| 2 | 2(u) 4(disz) masz2 | 24 gazelles, |
| 3 | la2-ia3-am3 | deficit. |
| 4 | nig2-ka9 ak | accounts |
| 5 | lu2-dingir-ra | Lu-dingira |
| 6 | mu en {d}inanna ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Inanna was installed; |
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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