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CUSAS 40, 0530 (P515314)
Business / Contracts, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | CUSAS 40, 0530 |
|---|---|
| ID | P515314 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts |
| Find spot | Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) |
| Coordinates | 31.6669, 45.8861 |
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 | 8(asz) 3(barig) sze gur nam# [...] | 8 gur 3 barig barley |
| 2 | 1(u) 3(asz) 1(barig) 2(ban2) 6(disz) sila3 nam [...] | 13 gur 1 barig 2 ban2 6 sila3 |
| 3 | 5(asz) 1(barig) 4(disz) sila3 nam lugal-[...] | 5 (gur) 1 barig 4 sila3 for the kingship |
| 4 | 1(asz) gur ma-asz2 | 1 gur, ma-aš |
| 5 | 5(asz) 1(barig) 5(ban2) 4(disz) sila3 gur | 5 gur 1 barig 5 ban2 4 sila3 |
| 6 | nam ur-{d}utu-ka | the fate of Ur-Utu, |
| 7 | 1(barig) 1(ban2) 2(disz) sila3 la-li2 | 1 barig 1 ban2 2 sila3 of lali-flour, |
| 8 | 3(barig) la-li2 min3-kam | 3 barig luli-flour, second time |
| 9 | 1(barig) 5(ban2)? szesz-a-ni | 1 barig 5 ban2: Šešani; |
| 10 | 1(asz) 1(barig) gur ur-{d}nin-mug-ga | 1 gur 1 barig, Ur-Ninmuga |
| 11 | 1(asz) 1(barig) ur-{gesz}gigir | 1 (gur) 1 barig, Ur-gigir |
| 12 | 4(barig) {d}szara2-mu-tum2 | 4 barig Šara-mutum |
| 13 | 2(barig) ma-asz2 min3-kam | 2 barig, second quality, |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [...]-mi | ... my |
| 2' | 1(barig) 1(ban2) {d}[...]-zu | 1 barig 1 ban2: ...zu |
| 3' | 1(barig) 1(ban2) a-[...]-la | 1 barig 1 ban2: A-...-la |
| 4' | 1(barig) 1(ban2) lu2-{d}nanna | 1 barig 1 ban2: Lu-Nanna; |
| 5' | 1(barig) 1(ban2) lu2-{d}szara2 | 1 barig 1 ban2: Lu-Šara; |
| 6' | 1(barig) 1(ban2) a-kal-la | 1 barig 1 ban2: Akalla |
| 7' | 1(barig) 1(ban2) ($ blank space $) | 1 barig 1 ban2 (= 100 sila3) |
| 8' | 1(barig) 1(ban2) ur-{d}utu | 1 barig 1 ban2: Ur-Utu |
| 9' | szunigin 4(u) 4(barig) 2(ban2) 2(disz) sila3 sze gur lugal# | total: 40 gur 4 barig 2 ban2 2 sila3 barley, royal (measure) |
| 10' | sze# ur5-ra ba? [...] | ... barley rations |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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