Legal tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Transliteration
tablet
obverse
1. 1(disz) sag-[x]
2. nig2-sa10-am3-[ma-ni]
3. [n] gin2 igi 3(disz)-gal2# [ku3-babbar]
4. x-[x]-x-NI dumu nibru#{ki#}-da#-lu2
5. [in]-szi-sa10
6. [...]-x-na
7. [simug?] ku3-la2!-bi
8. [...] x x x
9. [...]-e3?
10. [dumu nam?]-mah
11. lugal-za3 dumu ka-sa6-a
reverse
1. dingir-bi-la-ni aga3-us2
2. lugal-iti!-da! sukkal {d}nisaba
3. gab2-gi-bi
4. lu2-inim-<ma>-bi-me
5. iti du6-ku3 u4 2(u) zal-[la]
6. mu e2 puzur4-isz-da-gan mu-du3