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Collection #: UM 9
Publ. #: SET 261
Acquired from: Unknown
Measurements (HxWxTh): 53 x 45 x 18 mm
Condition: Intact; baked?
Description: Record of 208 laborers
Period: Ur III, ca. 21st cen. BCE
Provenience: Umma
Date: Amar-Suen, year 5
Seal Impression: Sealed by Akalla, the overseer


Transliteration:
 
obv. 1.  
86 guruš
2.  
    u4 1-šè
3.  
zi-ga gišpisan?
4.  
107 guruš u4 1-šè
5.  
íd dAmar-dEN.ZU-e-
6.  
gá-ra-da gub-ba
7.  
7 guruš tu
lo.e.  
(blank)
rev. 8.  
8 guruš u4 1-šè a-[d]a
9.  
        gub-ba
10.  
ugula Lú-sig5
11.  
kišib A-kal-la nu-banda3*
(blank line)
12.  
mu En-unu6-gal
13.  
dInnin ba-un
**l.e. 14.  
201; 7 tu
Translation:
 
1-3.  
86 laborers, for one day,
expenditure…;
4-6.  
107 laborers, for one day, stationed at the Amar-Suen-e-gar canal;
7.  
7 sick laborers
8-9.  
8 laborers, for one day, stationed on the water;
10.  
Foreman: Lú-sig5
11.  
Seal of Akalla, the overseer
12-13.  
Year En-unu6-gal(-anna) was installed (as e n -priest of) Inanna (of Uruk).
14.  
201 (laborers), 7 sick (laborers)
 
seal  1.  
A-kal-la
2.  
dub-sar
3.  
dumu Ur-nìgin-garkuš
1.  
Akalla,
2.  
scribe
3.  
son of Ur-nigin-gar, equerry


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Left edge of UM 9 Obverse of UM 9
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