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Collection #: UM 2
Publ. #: SET 163
Acquired from: Probably purchased from E. J. Banks, 1913
Measurements (HxWxTh): 40 x 39 x 14 mm
Condition: Intact; (baked?), the arabic numeral 18 is written in pen on the upper edge.
Description: Receipt for fodder
Period: Ur III, ca. 21st cen. BCE
Provenience: Umma
Date: Šu-Suen, year 7, mo. 11


Transliteration:
 
obv. 1.  
(0;)4.3(.0) še
2.  
šà-gal anše-kúnga
3.  
gur7 NI-RU-ta
4.  
ki Du11-g[a-t]a
lo.e.  
  (blank)
rev. 5.  
kišib Ur-dingir-ra
6.  
iti pa4-ú-e
  (blank line)
7.  
mu ma-da Za-ab-
8.  
ša-liki ba-ul
Translation:
 
1-4.  
4 (PI), 3 (b á n) barley,
fodder for onagers,
from the storehouse… (?)
5.  
from Dugga;
6.  
seal? of Ur-dingira.
7-8.  
Month p a4 - ú - e,
year the land of Zabšali
was destroyed.


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Obverse of UM 2
Reverse of UM 2 		Right edge of UM 2

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