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CUSAS 40, 1823 (P516607)
Administrative, Ur III, Irisagrig · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | CUSAS 40, 1823 |
|---|---|
| ID | P516607 |
| 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)
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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(ban2) kasz 1(ban2) ninda | [1 ban2] beer, 1 ban2 bread |
| 2 | szu-a-bu-szu sagi lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Šu-abūša, cupbearer, royal messenger. |
| 3 | u4 siskur2 lugal-sze3 im-gen-na-a | when he went to the king for the offering, |
| 4 | x x sila3 kasz [...] sila3 ninda | ... sila-beer, [... si]la-bread |
| 5 | [...] x lu2# kin-gi4-a-lugal | ... the messenger of the king |
| 6 | u4 |BAD.AN|{ki}-sze3 ba-gen-na-a | when he went to Dūr |
| 7 | 5(disz) sila3 kasz 5(disz) sila3 ninda | 5 sila3 beer, 5 sila3 bread, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | szu-ga-tum lu2 kin-gi4-a lugal | Šugatum, royal messenger. |
| 2 | u4 erin2 zah3 ARAD2 {d}nin-hur-sag dab5-ba-de3 im-gen-na-a | When the fugitive troops of Warad-Ninhursag were captured, he came. |
| 3 | 2(disz) sila3 kasz 2(disz) sila3 ninda | 2 sila₃ beer, 2 liters bread, |
| 4 | pu-lu-lu szusz3 | |
| 5 | u4 {ansze}kunga2 zi-gu5-um-sze3 im-gen-na-a | when the k-equid went to the ziggurat |
| 6 | zi-ga | booked out |
| 7 | iti nig2-{d}en-lil2-la2 | month: “Nig-Enlila,’ |
| 8 | mu en {d}inanna unu{ki} masz2-e i3-pa3 | year: “The high-priestess of Inanna of Uruk by goat was chosen. |
| left | ||
| 1 | u4 3(u)-kam | 30th 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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