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Collection #: UM 8
Publ. #: SET 327
Acquired from: Purchased from E. J. Banks, 1913, for $4
Measurements (HxWxTh): 40 x 37 x 19 mm
Condition: Intact; baked? The arabic numeral 7 is written in pen on the upper edge.
Description: Docket of tablet basket
Period: Ur III, ca. 21st cen. BCE
Provenience: Umma
Date: Šu-Suen, year 6


Transliteration:
 
obv. 1.  
pisan dub-ba    
2.  
dub dib-ba níg-ka9 šà
           GIŠ.KUŠU2[ki]
3.  
Ur-e11-e    
4.  
ì-gál
lo.e.  
(blank)
rev. 5.  
mu dŠu-dEN.
6.  
ZU lugal-e na-rú-
7.  
a ma dEn-líl
8.  
dNin-líl-ra [mu-]
       ne-dú      
Translation:
 
1-4.  
Basket of tablets:
(in it) are tablet(s) of…
accounts within Umma
(of?) Ur-e11-e.
5-8.  
Year Šu-Suen, king,
erected a great stela
for Enlil (and) Ninlil.


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Obverse of UM 8
Reverse of UM 8 		Right edge of UM 8


Note: A string-hole traverses the horizontal axis of this tablet. On the right side, the hole seems to have enlarged since Jones and Snyder read the tablet, for the place-name in line 3 is given as unrestored in SET; most of GIŠ.KUŠU2ki as well as MU at the end of line 8 have now disappeared.

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