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Nisaba 34, 0550 (P506754)

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

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Designation	Nisaba 34, 0550
ID	P506754
Museum no.	RBC 00599
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
1	1(bur3) 1(esze3) GAN2 tug2-gurx(\|SZE.KIN\|)	1 bur3 1 eše3 field area: garments
2	tug2-gur8 1/2(disz) 1/4(iku) GAN2-ta	a garment of 1/2 1/4 iku surface area each,
3	a2 erin2#-<na>-bi u4 1(gesz2) 3(u) 6(disz)-kam	its labor-troops: 96 days
4	2(bur3) GAN2 gesz a-ra2 3(disz)	2 bur3 field area, harrowing 3 times,
5	4(disz) 1/2(iku) GAN2-ta	4 1/2 iku surface area each,
6	a2 erin2-<na>-bi u4 2(u) 4(disz)-kam	its troops’ labor: 24 days;
reverse
1	[a]-sza3# {gesz}kiri6-gu-la u3 ki ezem	field, orchard and festival place
2	ugula ab-ba-gi-na#	foreman: Abbagina
3	kiszib3 szesz-kal-la	under seal of Šeškalla
4	mu ma2 {d}en-ki ba-ab-du8	year: “The boat of Enki was caulked.‭
seal 1
1	szesz-kal-la	Šeškalla
2	dub-sar	scribe
3	dumu ugu2-du6	son of Ugudu

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