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Nisaba 33, 125 (P517304)

Letter, Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE

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Designation	Nisaba 33, 125
ID	P517304
Museum no.	Schrijver 20-109
Collection	Adolph Schrijver, New York, USA
Language	Sumerian
Period	Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	uncertain (mod. uncertain)

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	ur-zu-ra	Urzura
2	u3-na-a-du11	he said to him
3	2(bur3) GAN2	2 bur3 field area
4	nam-lugal-a-ni-du10	for his kingship
5	2(bur3) GAN2 lugal-a-ra-ab!-kalam-ma	2 bur3 field area: Lugal-arabkalama
6	a-sza3 ki-ga-ri	field Kigari,
reverse
1	sza3 gu2-du8-a{ki}-ka	in Kutha
2	da-e-lu-la	Daʾula,
3	u3 ru-ba-tum lu2 ansze-ka	and Rubatum, your donkey driver
4	he2-ne-eb-szum2-mu	they shall give to him.
5	ul4-la-bi	Its young ones
6	si he2-ne-sa2-e	they shall set straight.

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