Unread Atlas
Nisaba 33, 111 (P517291)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | Nisaba 33, 111 |
|---|---|
| ID | P517291 |
| Museum no. | Schrijver 20-088 |
| 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' | 7(disz) gin2 [...] | 7 shekels |
| 2' | sa10-am3 [...] | It was the price |
| 3' | ki in-sa6#-[sa6-ta] | from Insasa |
| 4' | 6(disz) gin2 ku3 a-x zabala4#[{ki}] | 6 shekels silver ... Zabalam |
| 5' | ki du-du-ta | from Dudu |
| 6' | 5(disz) gin2 ku3 2(disz)? x | 5 shekels silver, 2 |
| 7' | ki szesz-kal-la szu-ku6-ta | from Šeškalla, the fisherman; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1/3(disz) gin2 ku3 ku6 ki ur-{d}suen szu-ku6-ta | 1/3 shekel of silver, fish from Ur-Suen, fisherman; |
| 2 | 5(disz) gin2 x ku3 a2 hun?-ga2 | 5 shekels ... silver, labor of hirelings; |
| 3 | 1(u) gin2 la2-ia3 su!-ga ki ba-sa6 | 10 shekels deficit, suga (measure), the place Basa |
| 4 | mu-kux(DU) | delivery; |
| 5 | gu-du-du | Gududu |
| 6 | szu ba-ti | received. |
| 7 | iti ezem#-[{d}]szul-gi | month: “Festival-of-Šulgi,’ |
| 8 | [mu ...] | year ... |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.