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BPOA 07, 1553 (P290373)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 1553 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290373 |
| Museum no. | NBC 01507 |
| 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(gesz2) 4(u) 8(disz) gurusz | 188 male laborers, |
| 2 | u4 1(disz)-sze3 | for 1 day |
| 3 | sze ma2-a si-ga | barley loaded into a barge |
| 4 | ma2 gid2-da | barge punted |
| 5 | sze ba-al-la | barley rations |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ugula da-da | foreman: Dada; |
| 2 | iti e2 iti-6(disz) | month: “House of Six Months,’ |
| 3 | mu ur-bi2-lum{ki} ba-hul | year: “Urbilum was destroyed. |
| seal 1 col 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}szul-gi | Šulgi |
| 2 | nita kal-ga | the strong man |
| 3 | lugal uri5{ki}-ma | king of Ur |
| 4 | lugal an-ub-da limmu2-ba | king of the four quarters |
| seal 1 col 2 | ||
| 1 | [...] | |
| 2 | [dub-sar] | scribe |
| 3 | [dumu ...] | son of ... |
| 4 | [ARAD2-zu] | your servant. |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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