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Nisaba 34, 0093 (P506493)

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

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Designation	Nisaba 34, 0093
ID	P506493
Museum no.	RBC 00101
Collection	J. Rosen Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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	[...]
2	[...]-x sar a-sza3 la2-mah	... field Lamaḫ
3	[n] 1(gesz2)# 1(u) 9(asz) 1(barig) gur	n 169 gur 1 barig
4	[ki-su7] ka-esztub{ku6#}-sag	at the reservoir of the kaeštub-fish
5	szunigin#? 4(u) 3(asz) 3(barig) gur	total: 43 gur 3 barig
6	[ki]-su7# a#-sza3# {gesz}ma-nu	the threshing floor of the field Manu
7	[n] 4(gesz2) 2(u) 5(asz) 4(barig)# 3(ban2) gur	255 gur 4 barig 3 ban2
8	[ki]-su7# a-sza3 la2-tur gu2-amusz	at the reservoir of the field Latur, Guamuš
9	[n] 2(u)#? 9(asz) 4(barig) gur	... 29? gur 4 barig
10	[n] n(u)#? 2(asz)#? 1(barig)#? ziz2 gur#	... 2? gur 1 barig emmer
11	2(u) 2(ban2) gig# gur#	20 gur 2 ban2 wheat
12	5(asz) sze engar-e-ne	5 gur of barley (for) the farmers
13	ki#-su7# a-sza3 la2-tur gaba \|KI.AN\|{ki}	at the threshing floor of the field Latur, adjacent to Ki’an
14	3(gesz2)# 1(u) 2(asz) 4(barig)# gur	132 gur 4 barig
15	ki-su7 a#-sza3# i3-szum2	Kisu, field Išum
16	1(gesz'u)# 1(gesz2) 4(u) 3(asz) 1(barig) 3(ban2)# gur	93 gur 1 barig 3 ban2
17	8(asz) ziz2 gur	8 gur emmer,
18	ki-su7 GAN2 ur-gu	Kisu field, Urgu;
19	1(gesz'u) 4(gesz2) 5(u) 8(asz) 3(barig) gur	108 gur 3 barig
20	ki#-su7 a-sza3 lugal-[...]	the threshing floor of the field Lugal-
obverse col 2
1	[...]
2	2(gesz'u)? 1(gesz2)#? 1(u) [n] 4(asz)# 2(barig)#? [gur]	240(?) gur 2 barig
3	ki#-su7# du6#-gub3#-temen#-[na]	in the courtyard of Dugubtemena
4	1(gesz'u) 7(gesz2)# 4(u) 4(asz) 2(barig)#? [gur]	114 gur 2 barig
5	ki#-su7# du6#-{u2#}[kiszi17]	the courtyard of Dukiši
6	1(gesz'u) 5(gesz2)# 2(u) 9(asz) 3(barig)# gur#	929 gur 3 barig
7	ki#-su7# gu-la a#-[sza3] la2-mah#	the great courtyard, field Lamaḫ
8	1(gesz'u) 4(gesz2)# 5(u) 3(asz) [n] 1(barig) [gur]	103 gur n 1 barig
9	ki#-su7# igi e2#?-duru5#? [a?-sza3?] la2-[mah?]	at the threshing floor in front of the “house-of-the-wall"(?) of the field Lamaḫ
10	2(gesz'u) 6(gesz2)# 2(u)#? [n gur]	220(?) gur
11	5(u)# 7(asz) ziz2# [gur]	57 gur emmer
12	2(u) 4(asz)# 3(barig)# 1(ban2) gig# gur#	24 gur 3 barig 1 ban2 wheat
13	ki#-su7# e2-duru5 gu-la	in the courtyard of the great threshing floor
14	1(gesz'u) 1(gesz2) 5(u) 3(barig) gur	103 gur 3 barig
15	2(gesz2)# 1(asz) 4(barig) ziz2 gur	121 gur 4 barig emmer
16	ki-su7 a-kun-kum2	in the courtyard of Akun-kum
17	9(gesz2) 2(u) 4(asz)# [n] gur#	184 gur
18	ki#-su7? e2-duru5 nin9#-[tur-tur]	at the threshing floor of the village of Ninturtur
19	2(gesz2) 2(u) 4(asz)# 1(barig) [gur]	184 gur 1 barig
20	ki-su7 e2-te#-[na-ka]	in the courtyard of Etena
21	[...]
reverse col 1
1	[...] 4(asz) 1(barig) gur# sze#? [...] x [...] x	... 4 gur 1 barig barley ...
2	szunigin 3(asz)# guru7# 2(gesz'u)#? 7(gesz2)# 2(u) 2(asz)# 1(barig) sze# gur {d}szul-gi#-ra#	total: 3 silos, 212 gur 1 barig barley for Šulgi
3	szunigin# 6(gesz2) 3(u)# 4(asz)# 3(barig)#? [ziz2] gur	total: 164 gur 3 barig emmer
4	[szunigin] 2(u) [n] 3(asz)# 2(barig)# [gig] gur#	total: 23 gur 2 barig wheat
5	da#-umma#{ki#}	of Dadumma
reverse col 2
1	[sze] gesz#-e3-a GAN2-gu4	barley from the threshing floor of oxen fields
2	da#-umma{ki}	of Dadumma
3	[ur-{d}]li9-si4 ensi2 umma#{ki}	Ur-Lisi, governor of Umma
4	giri3# ur-{d}lamma dub-sar	via Ur-Lamma, the scribe
5	mu# en#-mah-gal#-[an-na] en# {d}nanna# ba#-hun#	year: “Enmaḫgalana, the en-priestess of Nanna, was installed.

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