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BPOA 07, 2434 (P290264)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 2434 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290264 |
| Museum no. | NBC 04192 |
| Collection | Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) |
| Coordinates | 31.6669, 45.8861 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | 2(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 20 male laborer workdays, |
| 2 | ki-su7-ra du6-ku3-sig17-ta | from the Kisuŋara of the Holy Mound |
| 3 | e2-duru5 du6-ku3-sig17-sze3 sze zi-ga | to the Duruŋ temple of the Holy Mound barley booked out, |
| 4 | 2(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 20 male laborer workdays, |
| 5 | ki-su7-ra e2-gir-gi4-lu | for the Kisu, the Egirgilu |
| 6 | a-pi4-sal4{ki}-sze3 ma2 sze gid2-da | to Apisal barge with barley punted, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u3 sze ma2-a si-ga | and barley loaded into a barge |
| 2 | 8(disz) gurusz u4 2(disz)-sze3 | 8 male laborers for 2 days |
| 3 | guru7 e2-mah-ka im ur3-ra | at the silo of the Emah, piled up clay |
| 4 | u3 a-pi4-sal4{ki}-sze3 ma2 sze gid2-da | and Apisal barge with barley punted, |
| 5 | 8(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 sze ur-nigar | 8 workdays, male laborers, barley of Ur-nigar |
| 6 | a-pi4-sal4{ki}-sze3 im ur3-ra | to Apisal, clay moulds |
| 7 | 1(u) gurusz u4 4(disz)-sze3 sze bala-a | 10 workdays, male laborers, barley transferred, |
| 8 | ki-su7-ra bad3-du3-a-ta | from the Kisu, the site of the wall |
| 9 | a-pi4-sal4{ki}-sze3 sze ma2-a si-ga | to Apisal barley loaded into a barge |
| 10 | ugula lu2-{d}szara2 | foreman: Lu-Šara; |
| 11 | kiszib3 gu-du-du | under seal of Gududu |
| 12 | iti nesag | month: “nesag festival,{š} |
| left | ||
| 1 | mu en eridu{ki} ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Eridu was installed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | inim-{d}szara2 | Inim-Šara |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-nigar{gar} szusz3 | son of Ur-nigar, cattle manager |
Sources & licences
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- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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