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CUSAS 40, 0835 (P515619)
Business / Contracts, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | CUSAS 40, 0835 |
|---|---|
| ID | P515619 |
| 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 | 1(u) 5(asz) sze gur | 15 gur of barley |
| 2 | sze masz2 nu-tuku | barley with no interest |
| 3 | ki lugal-sze?-[...] | from Lugal-še- |
| 4 | ma2-gur8-[re] | the barge |
| 5 | szu [ba-ti] | received |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | sza3 buru14-ka sa10-[...] | in the middle of the harvest |
| 2 | mu lugal-bi in-[pa3] | he has sworn by the name of the king. |
| 3 | igi lu2-dingir-ra-sze3 | before Lu-dingira |
| 4 | igi ur-{d}kal-kal-sze3 | before Ur-Kalkal |
| 5 | igi ur-{d}gu4-nu2-a-sze3 | before Ur-Gunua, |
| 6 | igi igi-sa6-sa6-sze3 | before Igi-sasa |
| 7 | iti nesag | month: “nesag festival,{š} |
| 8 | mu ma2-gur8-mah ba-ab-du8 | year: “The great barge was caulked. |
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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