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Expenses Texts, diss., IM 204756 (P521487)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Expenses Texts, diss., IM 204756 |
|---|---|
| ID | P521487 |
| Museum no. | IM 204756 |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| 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)
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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(disz) masz2-gal niga 1(disz) sila3-[ta] | 1 full-grown billy goat, grain-fed, at 1 sila3 each |
| 2 | iti u4 1(u) ba-zal | the month, day 10 passed; |
| 3 | 1(disz) udu niga 1(disz) sila3-ta | 1 sheep, grain-fed, at 1 sila3 each |
| 4 | iti u4 1(u) 6(disz) ba-zal | the month, day 16 passed; |
| 5 | 1(barig) 5(ban2) dabin | 1 barig 5 ban2 of dabin flour |
| 6 | 2(ban2) 4(disz) sila3 zi3 sig15 | 2 ban2 4 sila3 fine flour |
| 7 | 1(barig) 5(ban2) 5(disz) sila3 kasz [du] | 1 barig 5 ban2 5 sila3 regular beer |
| 8 | 5(ban2) kasz saga | 5 ban2 fine beer |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | igi-kar2 lu2-dingir-ra ba-usz2 | before Lu-dingira died, |
| 2 | ki {d}szul-gi-mu-dah-ta | from Šulgi-mudaḫ |
| 3 | ba-zi | Bazi, |
| 4 | kiszib3 a-ga-ti-a | under seal of Agatiya |
| 5 | iti sig4-{gesz}[u3-szub-ba-gar-ra] | month: “Bricks cast in moulds,' |
| 6 | mu us2-sa bad3 [mar-tu] ba-du3 mu us2-[sa]-bi | year following: “The Amorite wall was erected;’ the year following that. |
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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