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CUSAS 40, 1779 (P516563)
Administrative, Ur III, Irisagrig · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | CUSAS 40, 1779 |
|---|---|
| ID | P516563 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Irisagrig |
| Coordinates | 32.1529, 45.3689 |
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(disz) sila3 tu7 2(disz) ku6 | 2 sila3 soup, 2 fish |
| 2 | lu2-sza-lim lu2 kin <gi4>-a lugal | Lu-šalim, the royal messenger, |
| 3 | u4 ninda sa gi4-gi4-de3 im-gen-na-a | When he went to bring back the bread, |
| 4 | 2(disz) sila3 tu7 2(disz) ku6 | 2 sila3 soup, 2 fish |
| 5 | ur-gu-tu-ur sukkal lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Ur-gutur, the messenger of the king. |
| 6 | 1(disz) sila3 tu7 1(disz) ku6 | 1 sila3 soup, 1 fish |
| 7 | lu2-{d}nanna lu2 sa12-du5? | Lu-Nanna, the man who the surveyor(?) |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [u4] lu2 udu ur4-de3 [zi-zi-de3 im-e-re-sza-a] | When a man is to raise a sheep and to raise it, |
| 2 | 2(disz)? sila3 tu7 2(disz)? ku6 | 2 sila3 soup, 2 fish |
| 3 | puzur4-{d}iszkur lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Puzur-Adad, messenger of the king |
| 4 | 2(disz) sila3 tu7 2(disz) ku6 | 2 sila3 soup, 2 fish |
| 5 | ARAD2-mu lu2 kin-gi4-[a lugal] | ARADmu, the royal messenger |
| 6 | u4 sze gur10-gur10-de3 im-e-re-sza-a | When the barley is to be poured out, |
| 7 | zi-ga | booked out |
| 8 | iti ezem-a-bi | month: “Festival-of-abi, |
| 9 | mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal uri5{ki}-ma-ke4 ma-da za-ab-sza-li{ki} mu-hul | year: “Šū-Suen, king of Ur, the land of Zabšali destroyed. |
| left | ||
| 1 | u4 2(u) 3(disz)-kam | 23rd day, |
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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