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CUSAS 40, 0525 (P515309)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | CUSAS 40, 0525 |
|---|---|
| ID | P515309 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| 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(disz) masz2 a-ra2 1(disz@t)-kam | 1 billy goat for the 1st time |
| 2 | 1(disz) udu a-ra2 2(disz@t)-kam | 1 sheep, 2nd time, |
| 3 | e2-gu-la-sze3 | to the Egula |
| 4 | [...] masz2 ka2-sze3 | ... goat to the gate |
| 5 | sza3# zabala4{ki} | in Zabalam |
| 6 | [...] udu a-ra2 1(disz@t)-kam | ... sheep for the 1st time |
| 7 | [...] udu niga iti u4 1(u) ba-zal | ... grain-fed sheep, month: "10 days passed" |
| 8 | {d}nin-szubur | For Ninšubur |
| 9 | 1(disz) udu niga iti u4 7(disz) ba-zal | 1 sheep, barley-fed, of the month, day 7 passed; |
| 10 | ($ blank space $) iti u4 1(u) 1(disz) ba-zal | the month, day 11 passed; |
| 11 | {d}szara2 | For Šara |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-[ra2 ...]-kam | times ... |
| 2 | 1(disz) udu {d}dumu-zi urua{+a} | 1 sheep (for) Dumuzi of the city |
| 3 | 1(disz) masz2 {d}ne3-eri11-gal | 1 goat (for) Nergal |
| 4 | 1(disz) udu {d}eb-gal | 1 sheep for Ebgal, |
| 5 | 1(disz) udu {d}gu-la | 1 sheep for Gula, |
| 6 | 1(disz) udu {d}az-gu-la | 1 sheep for Azgula, |
| 7 | 1(disz) masz2 {d}szul-pa-e3 | 1 goat for Šulpa’e, |
| 8 | 1(disz) masz2 gala-mah zabala4{ki} | 1 billy goat, chief lamentation singer of Zabalam, |
| 9 | 1(disz) udu {d}nin-ur4-ra | 1 sheep for Ninura, |
| 10 | 1(disz) masz2 ma2 {d}szara2 gaba-ri-a | 1 billy goat of the boat of Šara of the frontier, |
| 11 | sza3 umma{ki} | in Umma |
| 12 | 1(disz) udu {d}szara2 1(disz) masz2 {d}dumu-zi urua{+a} | 1 sheep for Šara, 1 billy goat for Dumuzi of Urua |
| 13 | sza3 |KI.AN|{ki} | in Ki’an |
| 14 | iti nesag | month: “nesag festival,{š} |
| 15 | mu us2-sa bad3 mar-tu ba-du3 | year following: “The Amorite wall was erected. |
Sources & licences
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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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