Administrative tag excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Musée des Antiquités, Rouen, France
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Transliteration
object tag
obverse
1. pisan-dub-ba
en: Basket-of-tablets:
2. gurum2-ak dib#-ba
en: inspections of who passed by,
3. erin2# sag#-apin
en: (labor-)troops, head-plows, of
4. e2 [{d}szul]-gi
en: the house of Šulgi
5. u3 nu-[{gesz}]kiri6 gesz gal-gal
en: and orchardists of the big woods,
reverse
1. gu2 i7 nigin6{ki}-sze3-du
en: bank of the waterway To Nigin-Going,
2. i3-gal2
en: are here;
3. mu hu-hu#-[nu-ri]{ki} ba-hul#
en: year: “Ḫuḫnuri was destroyed.”