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 ?