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BPOA 07, 2234 (P290737)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 2234 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290737 |
| Museum no. | NBC 03438 |
| 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 | 5(disz) sar sahar bar-la2 | 5 sar of barla-sand, |
| 2 | i7 e-szu-du6-da gub-ba | stationed at the Ešududa canal |
| 3 | 1(u) 6(disz) gurusz ka-giri3-da i7 lugal | 16 male laborers, via King's Canal; |
| 4 | 7(disz) gurusz a-sza3-ge a du11-<ga> u4 6(disz)-sze3 a-sza3 muru13 | 7 male laborers, field watered, for 6 days field muru |
| 5 | 3(u) gurusz al 3(disz) sar-ta | 30 male laborers, hoed at 3 sar (per day), |
| 6 | 5(u) gurusz al 2(disz) sar-ta | 50 male laborers, hoed at 2 sar (per day), |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 5(u) gurusz {gesz}dih3 ku5 2(u) sar-ta | 50 male laborers, harvesters, 20 sar (per day) |
| 2 | a-sza3 muru13 | field muru; |
| 3 | ugula lugal-ku3-zu | foreman: Lugal-kuzu; |
| 4 | kiszib3 a-kal-la | under seal of Akalla |
| 5 | mu ki-masz{ki} ba-hul | year: “Kimaš was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | a-kal-la | Akalla |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu lugal-e2-mah-e | son of Lugal-emaḫe, |
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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