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VAT.17048 (ebl:VAT.17048)
ARCHIVAL > Administrative > Expenditure > Messenger Text; ARCHIVAL > Administrative > Inventories > Balanced Accounts, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | VAT.17048 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:VAT.17048 |
| Museum no. | VAT.17048 |
| Collection | Babylon |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | ARCHIVAL > Administrative > Expenditure > Messenger Text; ARCHIVAL > Administrative > Inventories > Balanced Accounts |
| Find spot | Girsu |
| Coordinates | 31.5591, 46.1776 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| reverse col 4' 8 | oil |
| reverse col 3' 6 | its barley: 13.4 3 sila3 |
| obverse col 2' 2' | to the horizon |
| reverse col 3' 10 | unin2 5 1 sila3 of lard |
| obverse col 1' 5' | 8 sila3 beer |
| obverse col 2' 12' | of airi |
| obverse col 1' 6' | uninu-aromatic, 3;10 wort-shekels |
| obverse col 1' 1' | (a kind of profession) |
| obverse col 2' 11' | 0;0.3 beer; 12 sila3 oil |
| reverse col 4' 2 | donkey eating |
| obverse col 2' 6' | the district of Shu-Mami |
| obverse col 2' 9' | the city of ulgi-ayaju |
| reverse col 4' 3 | 6 sila3 beer |
| reverse col 3' 11 | month: “Amar-ayasi,” |
| obverse col 1' 7' | its barley: 3 50 gur 8 sila3 |
| obverse col 1' 8' | 8? gur 2 sila3 barley flour |
| reverse col 3' 1 | in the district of Simu, the messenger |
| reverse col 3' 5 | two-thirds of a shekel |
| obverse col 2' 7' | 0;0.5 beer; 1 sila3 oil |
| reverse col 3' 2 | to airi |
| reverse col 4' 6 | gur flour |
| obverse col 1' 9' | x+2 talents of oil |
| reverse col 4' 5 | its barley: x+4 sila3 |
| reverse col 3' 9 | its oil: 2 1/2 sila3 7 shekels |
| reverse col 4' 4 | ... of the river gin |
| reverse col 3' 3 | 1 gur barley, donkey fed |
| obverse col 2' 10' | to unuri |
| obverse col 1' 3' | to |
| reverse col 4' 7 | ... oil |
| obverse col 2' 1' | the city |
| obverse col 2' 8' | of unuri |
| obverse col 2' 3' | 1 liter of beer, 1 liter of oil |
| obverse col 1' 4' | donkey eats |
| reverse col 3' 7 | 2 gur 2 sila3 barley flour |
| obverse col 1' 2' | the city of |
| obverse col 2' 4' | (a kind of profession) |
| obverse col 2' 5' | to imaki |
| reverse col 3' 4 | 1 gur 3 sila3 beer |
| reverse col 4' 1 | 1 gur |
| reverse col 3' 8 | a kind of oil |
Sources & licences
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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