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CUSAS 40, 0727 (P515511)
Business / Contracts, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | CUSAS 40, 0727 |
|---|---|
| ID | P515511 |
| 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 | 2(asz) sze gur lugal | 2 gur of barley, royal (measure), |
| 2 | sze ur5-ra masz ga2-ga2 | barley rations and interest are to be paid. |
| 3 | u3 nig2 sag du8-a-bi | and that which is to be carried off, |
| 4 | 1/2(disz) gin2 ku3 | 1/2 shekel silver, |
| 5 | ki lugal-ku3-zu | from Lugal-kuzu |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ba-zi | Bazi, |
| 2 | szu ba-ti | received. |
| 3 | gurx(|SZE.KIN|)#-gurx(|SZE.KIN|)-de3 | to grind |
| 4 | iti sze-sag ku5 | month: “Harvest,{I}se’ |
| 5 | mu en eridu{ki} ba-hun-ga2 | year: “The en-priestess of Eridu was installed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-ku3-zu | Lugal-kuzu |
| 2 | dumu lugal-[...] | son of Lugal- |
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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