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Collection #: UM 1
Publ. #: SET 283
Acquired from: Purchased from E. J. Banks, 1913, for $4
Measurements (HxWxTh): 40 x 38 x 14 mm
Condition: Intact; baked?
Description: Receipt for two reed mats
Period: Ur III, ca. 21st cen. BCE
Provenience: Umma?
Date: Amar-Suen, year 9
Seal Impression: Sealed by Lu-Ninšubur, son of Ur-gigir


Transliteration:
 
obv. 1.  
2 kid-šú*-má
2.  
ki-lá-bi ½ sar
3.  
má-zì-da-šè
4.  
ki Ur-dŠul-pa-
           è
lo.e.  
    (blank)
rev. 5.  
kišib Lú-dNin-
                 šubur
(blank space of two lines)
6.  
šà bal-a
7.  
mu en ga-eš
8.  
ki ba-un
Translation:
 
1-4.  
Two reed mats to cover a boat, their size ½ s a r, for a flour(-transport) boat, (in the) place of Ur-Šulpae.
5.  
seal of Lu-Ninšubur.
6-8.  
Within the term of office; year the high priest (of Nanna of) Ga-eš was installed.

 
seal  1.  
Lú-dNin-šubur
2.  
dub-sar
3.  
dumu Ur-gišgigir
4.  
mu-sar dŠára
 
1.  
Lu-Ninšubur
2.  
scribe
3.  
son of Ur-gigir
4.  
scribe of (the god) Šara

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Obverse of UM 1

Reverse of UM 1

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