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BPOA 07, 2440 (P290283)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 2440 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290283 |
| Museum no. | NBC 04214 |
| 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 | 3(disz) {gi}si-ig-da esir2 su-ba | 3 sigda baskets, reinforced with bitumen; |
| 2 | ki-a-nag ur-{d}namma-ka | in the drinking place of Ur-Namma |
| 3 | 3(disz) {gi}si-ig-da esir2 su-ba | 3 sigda baskets, reinforced with bitumen; |
| 4 | za3-gu2-la2 | (a kind of container) |
| 5 | 3(disz) {gi}si-ig-da esir2 su-ba | 3 sigda baskets, reinforced with bitumen; |
| 6 | ki-[sa2]-a-asz | to the kisāš |
| 7 | 2(disz) {gi}si-ig-da esir2 su-ba zi3 ga6 | 2 sigda baskets of esir-flour woven with fine flour, |
| 8 | 3(disz) {gi}ma-<an>-sim nig2-ar3-ra | 3 reed mats, nig-ar, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(disz) [{gi}ma]-an-sim zi3 | 1 reed basket of flour |
| 2 | [...] | |
| 3 | [...] | |
| 4 | 1(disz) {gi}gur nag-dim2 esir2 su-ba | 1 gur of nagdim-stone, inlaid with bitumen, |
| 5 | 2(disz) {gi}ma-sa2-ab 2(ban2)-ta | 2 reed baskets, 2 ban2 each |
| 6 | kiszib3 lu2-{d}nin-szubur | under seal of Lu-Ninšubur |
| 7 | sza3 bala-a zi-ga nibru{ki} | in the bala, rising of Nippur |
| 8 | ki lu2-igi-sa6-sa6-ga-ta | from Lu-igisaga |
| 9 | mu us2-sa ki-masz{ki} ba-hul | year after: “Kimaš was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-{d}nin-szubur | Lu-Ninšubur |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu szesz-kal-la | son of Šeškalla |
| 4 | szabra | the chief household administrator |
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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