AAICAB 1/2, pl. 112, 1937-096 (P248708)

Administrative tag excavated in Umma (mod. Tell Jokha), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

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Transliteration

tablet
obverse
1. pisan-dub-ba
 en: Basket-of-tablets:
2. nig2-ka9-ak nu-banda3-ke4-ne
 en: accounts of the inspectors,
3. a2 geme2
 en: the labor of the female workers,
4. a2 he2-dab5
 en: the labor of the ‘takers,’
5. nig2-ka9 sahar-ra ur-du-e?
 en: accounting of soil ...
reverse
1. u3 sahar zi-ga didli u2-x umma{ki}
 en: and soil lifted, various ... Umma,
2. mu# 1(disz)-kam
 en: (a period of) 1 year,
3. i3#-gal2
 en: are here;
4. mu# ha-ar-szi{ki} ki-masz ba-hul
 en: year: “Ḫarši, Kimaš were destroyed.”
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