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Anonymous 500131 unpublished unassigned ? (P500131)

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

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Designation	Anonymous 500131 unpublished unassigned ?
ID	P500131
Museum no.	Anonymous 500131
Collection	anonymous
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 col 1'
1'	[...]-a#	...-a
2'	[...]
3'	[...] du8#	... heaped up
4'	[...]-x-ra	... ...
5'	[...]-ta	from
6'	[...]-kam	It is of
7'	[...] KU?	... ...
8'	[...] du8#	... heaped up
obverse col 2'
1'	[...] guru7#-a im ur3-ra	... in the silos heaped up clay
2'	a2-bi u4 3(gesz2) 2(u) 6(disz)-kam	its labor: 166 days;
3'	kiszib3-bi 2(disz)-am3	its sealed tablets: 2
4'	kiszib3 lu2-{d}su4-an-ka#	under seal of Lu-Suanna
5'	2(gesz'u) sa gi	120 bundles of reed
6'	gu-nigin2-ba 1(u) 2(disz) sa-ta	total: 12 bundles each,
7'	gu-nigin2-bi 1(gesz2) 4(u)	total: 240,
8'	gurusz#-e gu-nigin2 2(disz)-ta	the lad, a total of 2 (mana wool)
9'	a2#-bi# [...]	its labor: ...
obverse col 3'
1	[...] 4(u)	... 40
2	[...]-gi-na	...-gina
3	[...] x u4 2(disz)-sze3	... for 2 days
4	[a2]-bi u4 1(u) 6(disz)	its labor: 16 days
5	kab2#-ku5 en-du8-du-ka gub-ba	stationed at the granary of the endudu personnel
6	kiszib3 ukken-ne2	sealed documents of the assembly
7	1(u) 2(disz) gurusz u4 4(disz)-sze3	12 male laborers for 4 days
8	en-du8-du-ta dub-la2 {d}utu-sze3 u2 ga6-ga2	from the Dubla canal to the Utu canal fed grass
9	u4 1(u)-sze3 kab2-ku5 dub-la2 {d}utu u3 i7 gibil-ka sahar si-ga	for 10 workdays, at the reservoir of Utu’s Dubla canal and the New Canal filled with dust.
10	a2#-bi u4 3(disz)-kam	its labor: 3 days
11	[...] AN [...] x	... ...
reverse col 1
1'	gu-nigin2-bi 1(gesz'u) n	its gu-nig-in: 10(sixty)
2'	gurusz-e gu-nigin2 3(disz)-ta#	for the young man, a total of 3 (mana wool)
3'	a2-bi u4 4(disz)-kam	its labor: 4 days;
4'	kiszib3# ur-{d}isztaran	under seal of Ur-Ištaran
5'	giri3# lu2-{d}szara2	via Lu-Shara
6'	ensi2 gu2-du8-a{ki}	governor of Kutha
7'	n 1/2(disz) gurusz u4 n 5(disz)-sze3	n 1/2 workdays, male laborers,
8'	a2#-bi u4 1(gesz'u) 2(gesz2) 3(u) 2(disz) 1/2(disz)	its labor: 92 1/2 days
9'	bala-a gub-ba	in the bala stationed
10'	bala-sze3 gen-na	went to the bala.
11'	u3# bala-ta gur-ra	and returned from the bala
12'	giri3#? ur-{d}nun-[gal] sza13-dub-ba	via Ur-Nungal, chief accountant
13'	[...] x szesz-tab-ba [...] ib2-ta-zi	... the brother-in-law ... raised
14'	[...] x {d}nerah?	... Nerah(?)
15'	[...] iti {d}dumu-zi-sze3	... to month: “Dumuzi,'
16'	[...]-a?	...a(?)
17'	x x x
reverse col 2
1'	[...] x x
2'	[...] x x

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