UET 3, 1303 (P137628)

Administrative tablet excavated in Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar), 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. 8(asz) ku6-sze6 gur
 en: 8 gur smoked fish,
2. mu nig2-gu7-a geme2 ARAD2-e-ne
 en: as food for the female and male slaves
3. za3-mu-ka-sze3
 en: for the new year (festival),
4. e2-kiszib3-ba-ta
 en: from the house-of-sealed (goods),
5. ur-{d}szul-pa-e3
 en: did Ur-Šulpae
reverse
1. szu ba-an-ti
 en: receive;
2. iti szu-esz5-sza
 en: month: “Šu-eša,”
3. mu {d}i-bi2-{d#}suen# lugal uri5{ki}-ma-ke4 nibru#{ki} uri5{ki}-ma bad3-gal-bi# mu#-du3#
 en: year: “Ibbi-Suen, king of Ur, in Nippur Ur’s Big-Wall did erect.”