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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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