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BPOA 07, 2214 (P290718)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 2214 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290718 |
| Museum no. | NBC 03396 |
| 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 | 7(disz) gurusz u4 2(disz)-sze3 | 7 male laborers for 2 days |
| 2 | tir ur-ab-ba | the Urabba forest |
| 3 | dur sur-ra {u2}gug4 ma2-da la2 u3 ma2-a ga2-ra | “Dur-sur-ra, gug-plant on the boat, left, and barge loaded, |
| 4 | u4 5(disz)-sze3 | for 5 days |
| 5 | ka gurusz-gin7-du-na!?-sze3 | to the mouth of the “young man"(?) |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ma2 gid2-da u3 ba-al-la | barge punted and unloaded |
| 2 | ugula szesz-kal-la | foreman: Šeškalla |
| 3 | kiszib3 ur-{d}szara2 | under seal of Ur-Šara; |
| 4 | mu en eridu{ki} ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Eridu was installed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}szara2 | Ur-Šara |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu szesz-kal-la | son of Šeškalla |
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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