MS 1716/1 (P250467)

Administrative tablet excavated in Uncertain (mod. uncertain), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Schøyen Collection, Oslo, Norway

Image © Martin Schøyen and the Schøyen Collection

Transliteration

tablet
obverse
1. 3(asz) saga da-a
2. 2(asz) saga 1(asz) du x x
3. 1(asz) saga 1(asz) du x x
4. 2(asz) saga {d}x-x
5. 2(asz) saga x
6. 3(asz) saga 1(asz) du ur-esz18-dar
7. 3(asz) saga ur-x-x
8. 3(asz) saga ur-ab-ba?
9. 1(asz) saga lu2-bala-saga#
10. 1(asz) saga 2(asz) du mu-zu
11. 2(asz) saga x
12. 2(asz) saga 1(asz) du sza3-ad-da
13. 2(asz) saga a-gi4-gi4
14. 1(asz) saga 1(asz) du {d}nin-[...]
reverse
1. 1(asz) saga da-gi-mu
2. 2(asz) du {d}x-a-du8
3. 1(asz) du ur-mes
4. 2(asz) du a2-na
5. 2(asz) du ur4
6. 2(asz) saga ur-x-ba
7. 2(asz) saga x x
8. 1(asz) saga lugal-[...]
9. 2(asz) saga {d}gu2-bi-mu
10. 1(asz) saga mah
  (double ruling)
11. szunigin 2(asz) 2(barig) 2(ban2) kasz saga gur
  over erasures
12. szunigin 4(barig) 4(ban2) kasz du gur
  over erasures
  lines 10 and 11 are written on dry clay
13. zi-ga u4 1(u) 1(disz)-kam
  (blank space with notations)
14. 2(gesz2)? 2(u) 7(disz@v) 3(u)
  place value notation ?