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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