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Nisaba 33, 144 (P517324)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 33, 144 |
|---|---|
| ID | P517324 |
| Museum no. | Schrijver 20-129 |
| 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) kusz gu4 mu 1(asz) u2-hab2 | 1 hide of ox, 1 year (old), suckling |
| 2 | 8(disz) kusz udu ge6 | 8 black sheep skins, |
| 3 | 1/2(disz) ma-na sze-gin2 | 1/2 mana of baked bricks, |
| 4 | 1(u) gin2 sa | 10 shekels squared: |
| 5 | 8(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 8 male laborer workdays, |
| 6 | [...] x x x | |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [...]-ga 1(u) 2(disz) [...] | ... 12 ... |
| 2' | ki a-a-kal-la-ta | from Ayakalla |
| 3' | kiszib3 gu-du-du | under seal of Gududu |
| 4' | iti nesag | month: “nesag festival,{š} |
| 5' | mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal uri5{ki}-ma-ke4 e2 {d}szara2 umma{ki}-ka mu-du3 | year: “Šu-Suen, king of Ur, the house of Šara in Umma erected. |
| seal 1 col 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}szu-{d}suen | Šū-Suen, |
| 2 | lugal kal-ga | mighty king |
| 3 | lugal uri5{ki}-ma | king of Ur |
| 4 | lugal an-ub-da limmu2-ba | king of the four quarters |
| seal 1 col 2 | ||
| 1 | gu-du-du | Gududu |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu da-da-ga | son of Dadaga, |
| 4 | ARAD2-zu | your servant. |
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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