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CUSAS 40, 1709 (P516493)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | CUSAS 40, 1709 |
|---|---|
| ID | P516493 |
| 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)
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 | 5(gesz'u) 4(gesz2) gu2 gi# | 420 talents of reed |
| 2 | 5(disz) gu-nigin2-ba x x x | 5 guniginba-vessels, |
| 3 | sza3-bi-ta | therefrom: |
| 4 | 2(u) 2(disz) gu-nigin2 [gi] | 22 bundles of reed |
| 5 | u4 2(u)-sze3 | for 20 days |
| 6 | 1(u) 1(disz) gu-nigin2 gi | 11 bundles of reed, |
| 7 | u4 1(gesz2) 4(u) 5(disz)-sze3 | for 95 days |
| 8 | gu-nigin2-bi 2(gesz'u) gi | total: 240 reeds |
| 9 | 3(u) bala-sze3 | 30 bala, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | iti min-esz3-ta | from month "Minesh" |
| 2 | iti pa4-u2-e | month: “Pa’ue, |
| 3 | nigin2? | totality(?) |
| 4 | szunigin 3(gesz'u) 9(gesz2) gu-nigin2 gi | total: 190 (sixties) bundles of reed |
| 5 | zi-ga-am3 | booked out, |
| 6 | 3(gesz'u) gu-nigin2 gi | 180 bundles of reed, |
| 7 | nig2-gal2-la | possessions |
| 8 | iti {d}dumu-zi | month: “Dumuzi,’ |
| 9 | mu en {d}nanna kar-zi-da ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Nanna of Karzida was installed. |
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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