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Collection #: UM 11
Publ. #: SET 287
Acquired from: Probably purchased from E. J. Banks, 1913
Measurements (HxWxTh): 38 x 44 x 17 mm
Condition: Intact; unbaked? The arabic numeral 20 is written in pen on the reverse.
Description: Receipt for wood and reeds
Period: Ur III, ca. 21st cen. BCE
Provenience: Umma
Date: Šulgi, year 33, mo. 8


Transliteration:
 
obv. 1.  
213?* gišpèš
2.  
1 sa gi
3.  
ki Ù*-ma-ni-ta
4.  
Ku-ga-ni
5.  
šu-ba-ti
lo.e.  
(blank)
rev. 6.  
iti é-iti-6
(blank space of 4 lines)
7.  
mu ús-sa a-rá
8.  
3.kam Si-mu-ru-um
u.e. 9.  
         ki <ba-ul>
Translation:
 
1-5.  
213? fig-tree (logs?),
one bundle of reeds,
from Umani
Kugani received.
6.  
Month é - i t i - 6,
7-9.  
year after the year
Simurrum <was destroyed>
for the 3rd time.



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Upper Edge of UM 11

Obverse of UM 11

Top of the Reverse of UM 11

Bottom of the Reverse of UM 11


Right edge of UM 11


For a better view of the seal impression, click here.

String marks traverse the center and left margin of the tablet's obverse and reverse, without continuing over its upper and lower edges for the most part. A seal was impressed in the uninscribed space on the reverse, occupying – to the extent that it is discernible – primarily the left half of the space, to the left of the string mark. The text was inscribed faintly and somewhat sloppily, and the seal impression is even more exiguous.

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