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CTPSM 1, 248 (P500386)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | CTPSM 1, 248 |
|---|---|
| ID | P500386 |
| Museum no. | GMII 1485 |
| Collection | Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russian Federation |
| 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 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 ninda | 5 sila3 beer, 5 sila3 bread, |
| 2 | 1(disz) i3-gesz id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 3 | en-[du11]-ga-ni sukkal | Endugani, the messenger |
| 4 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz# 5(disz) sila3 ninda | 5 liters of beer, 5 litres of bread |
| 5 | 1(disz) i3#-[gesz] id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil |
| 6 | ep#-qu2-sza sukkal | performed by the vizier |
| 7 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 [ninda] | 5 sila3 beer, 5 sila3 bread |
| 8 | 1(disz) i3-gesz id-[gur2] | 1 idgur oil |
| 9 | sze#-li-<bu>-um sukkal | Šelībum, the messenger |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 [ninda] | 5 sila3 beer, 5 sila3 bread |
| 2 | 1(disz) i3-gesz id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 3 | er3-ra-ur-sag | Erra-ursag |
| 4 | a-sza3# sipa gukkal-sze3 gen-na | went to the field of the shepherd of the fat-tailed sheep |
| 5 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 ninda | 5 sila3 beer, 5 sila3 bread, |
| 6 | 1(disz) i3-gesz id-gur2 | 1 idgur oil, |
| 7 | sa6#-a-ga sukkal | Sagaga, the messenger |
| 8 | ma2 muszen-sze3 i7-da gub#-ba | to the boat of the bird stationed in the river |
| 9 | nibru{ki}-ta du | from Nippur went, |
| left | ||
| 1 | iti# ezem-{d#}[li9]-si4# | month: “Festival-of-Lisi,'' |
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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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