Position in chronology
OSP 2, 107
About this tablet
A badly broken administrative fragment from Nippur, dating to the Old Akkadian period (roughly 2350–2200 BCE), when the dynasty of Sargon of Akkad ruled southern Mesopotamia. The surviving entries pair small numbers with personal names and twice refer to the 'women's house' — an estate or household probably attached to a high-ranking woman — and once to a named field. It is a scrap of the paperwork by which Akkadian-period administrators kept track of labourers or allotments tied to institutional estates.
Plain-language summary by the engine — meant as a doorway into the literal translation below.
Written in modern English
What remains is a tally of people and plots. After two unreadable lines, someone named Ur-sa is listed with the number 2, and a note says these belong to the women's household. A broken entry gives 20 of something, then An-ikuš is listed with 3, followed by Lugal-e-ana, again marked as belonging to the women's household. A heading names a field, 'Igi-nimma-tur'. Under it come Ur-Damu, Lugal-uri with 3, Adda, and A-GIR-gal; a final name ending in '-mu' is barely legible, and the rest of the tablet is gone.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — our engine
Our engine1. [...] ... 2. [...] ... 3. [...] 2 (units/persons): Ur-sa 4. (they are) people (lu) of the [women's house]? 5. 20 [...] ... 6. [...] 3: An-i-kuš 7. [...] Lugal-e-ana 8. [... (of) the] women's house? 9. [Field: Igi]-nimma-tur 10. [...] Ur-Damu 11. [...] 3: Lugal-uri 12. [...] Adda 13. [...] A-GIR-gal 14. [...]-mu? (rest broken)
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Transliteration
[...] x [...] x [...] 2(disz) ur-sa6 lu [e2]-[munus]-kam? 2(u) [...] x [...] 3(disz) an-[i3]-kusz2 [...] lugal-e-a2-na [... e2]-munus-kam? [GAN2 igi]-nim-ma-tur [...] ur-da-mu [...] 3(disz) lugal-uri3 [...] ad-da [... a]-GIR2@g-gal [...]-mu#?
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — OSP 2, 107. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P216261) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from engine:claude-fable-5-1 (2026-09-20/v8-evolved).
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