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BPOA 07, 1559 (P290380)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 1559 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290380 |
| Museum no. | NBC 01516 |
| 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 | 1(disz) 1/2(disz) kusz gu4 babbar2 | 1 1/2 hides of white bulls, |
| 2 | 1/2(disz) ma-na sze-gin2 | 1/2 mana of baked bricks, |
| 3 | 1(disz) gurusz aszgab u4 3(disz)-sze3 | 1 male laborer, ašgab-worker for 3 days |
| 4 | {gesz}ig ur3! e2 {d}szara2-ka HI-la2-a | the door of the roof of the house of Šara ... |
| 5 | 1(disz) 1/2(disz) kusz gu4 babbar2 | 1 1/2 hides of white bulls, |
| 6 | 1/2(disz) ma-na sze-gin2 | 1/2 mana of baked bricks, |
| 7 | 1(disz) gurusz aszgab u4 3(disz)-sze3 | 1 male laborer, ašgab-worker for 3 days |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [{gesz}ig] e2-masz2-a diri-ka HI-la2-a | the door of Emaš's extra door HIla |
| 2 | inim du-u2-du11-ta | by the command of Duudu |
| 3 | 1(disz) kusz amar u2-hab2 | 1 hide of calf, suckling, |
| 4 | le-le-es2 e2 {d}szara2-ka si-ga | to make the house of Šara shine, |
| 5 | 1(disz) ub5 kusz si-ga | 1 ub5 leather pouch, siga, |
| 6 | zi-ga e2 {d}szara2 | booked out of the house of Šara |
| left | ||
| 1 | mu en {d}nanna | year: “The en-priestess of Nanna, |
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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