Administrative tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Image
© Penn Museum
Transliteration
tablet
obverse
column 1
5 lines missing
column 2
several lines missing
1. [...]-DI-[...]-e
2. [x {d}en]-lil2#-la2
3. [x] lugal#-ezem
4. [...]
5. 3(ban2@c) u2-hub2
6. 1(barig@c) ur2-ni
double ruling
7. 4(ban2@c) lugal-iti-da
8. PAP lugal-sza3
9. PAP amar-ni
10. 3(ban2@c) lugal-gesz
11. PAP {d}en-lil2-a2-mu
12. [x] lugal-a2
several lines missing
column 3
1. [x] ur#-{d}en#-[lil2]
2. [x] ur#-UD-x
3. PAP lugal-en#-[nu?]
4. 3(ban2@c) ur-sag# [x]
5. 3(ban2@c) ur-PA#
6. 2(asz@c) geme2 [3(ban2@c)?]
7. 4(ban2@c) lugal-e2
8. [x] sag-dingir?-tuku
9. 4(ban2@c) lugal#-x x-sza3#?
10. lugal-[...]-du10
11. PAP ur-{d}[...]
12. ur-{d}[...]
1 line blank
13. x [...]
14. 4(ban2@c) [...]
several lines missing
reverse
column 1
1. [x] 1(asz@c)#? x [...] lunga#
2. szu-dab5
3. geme2
4. dumu
5. du3-[a-ku5]
6. SAR-ki [...]
7. 1(u@c) 2(asz@c) SAR# [...] x [...]
8. 2(asz@c) gal-[...]
9. 1(asz@c) lu2#? [...]
10. 3(asz@c) [...]
several lines missing
column 2
1. [...]-gi#
2. [...]-NE
3. x lugal-an-ta-ti
4. 3(ban2@c) nin-ku4
5. 3(ban2@c) nin-bara2-ge
6. 3(ban2@c) ama-ki
7. PAP e2-iti-da
8. [x] nin#-x
several lines missing
column 3
1. [...] dumu
2. [...]-sa6
rest of column missing