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Nisaba 34, 0588 (P506780)

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

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Designation	Nisaba 34, 0588
ID	P506780
Museum no.	RBC 00639
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	2(disz) udu u2	2 sheep, grass-fed,
2	1(disz) dug dida saga	1 jug fine dida beer,
3	8(disz) dug dida du	8 jugs of regular dida beer,
4	3(barig) dabin	3 barig flour,
5	3(disz) sila3 i3-gesz	3 sila3 sesame oil
6	2(disz) {gi}gur-dub	2 gurdub baskets
7	3(disz) {gi}kaskal	3 reed baskets
reverse
1	2(asz) gu2 pa-ku5 {gesz}asalx(\|A.TU.NIR\|)	2 talents of asal-wood
2	elam e2-gal-ta	from Elam, the palace
3	gen-na-a szu ba-ab-ti	went, received.
4	5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 ninda 5(disz) gin2 naga	5 sila₃ beer, 5 liters of bread, 5 shekels of alkali,
5	3(disz) gin2 i3 3(disz) gin2 szum2	3 shekels oil, 3 shekelles onions,
6	giri3 nu-ur2-{d}iszkur dub-<sar>	via Nur-Adad, the scribe;
7	iti szu-numun	month: “Sowing,’
8	mu hu-hu-nu-ri{ki} ba-hul	year: “Ḫuḫunuri was destroyed.‭

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