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Nisaba 33, 97 (P517280)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 33, 97 |
|---|---|
| ID | P517280 |
| Museum no. | Schrijver 20-074 |
| Collection | Adolph Schrijver, New York, USA |
| 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 | [1(disz) ...]-ta [dumu ur]-zikum-ma | 1 ... each son of Ur-zikumma |
| 2 | [1(disz) a]-kal#-la dumu ba-an-zi-ge | 1 Akalla, son of Banzige |
| 3 | [iti ...]-ta | from month ... |
| 4 | [iti] e2#-[iti]-6(disz)-sze3 | for the month "House-month-6" |
| 5 | [1(disz)] szesz#!-a-ni dumu ur?-u2-mu | 1 Šešani, son of Ur-umu |
| 6 | [iti sze-kar-ra]-gal2-ta | from month “Barley at the granary’ |
| 7 | [iti ...-sze3] | for the month ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(disz) ur-{d}hal-mu-sza! | 1 Ur-Ḫalmuša, |
| 2 | iti# dal-ta | from month "All" |
| 3 | iti e2-iti-6(disz)-sze3 | for the month “House-month-6,’ |
| 4 | [1(disz)] hux(RI)-ba6-ba6 [dumu ur]-zikum-ma sipa | 1 Ḫubaba, son of Ur-zikumma, the shepherd |
| 5 | [iti ...]-ta# | from month ... |
| 6 | iti min3-esz3-sze3 | for two months |
| 7 | [ug3-IL2 sza3 en-nun]-ga2 ti-la | the porters, living in my guard |
| 8 | [mu en] ga-esz{ki} ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Ga’eš was installed. |
| 9 | [...] x x | |
| 10 | [kiszib3] dingir-ra!-ka | under seal of Dingira |
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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