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BPOA 07, 2239 (P290741)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 2239 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290741 |
| Museum no. | NBC 03443 |
| 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 | 4(disz) gurusz u4 5(disz)-sze3 | 4 male laborers for 5 days |
| 2 | sze de2-a u3 sze ma2-a si-ga | barley delivered and barley loaded into the boat, |
| 3 | u4 1(u) 4(disz)-sze3 i7 sal4-la-ta | 14 workdays, from the Salla canal |
| 4 | nibru{ki}-sze3 ma2 sze gid2-da | to Nippur barge with barley punted, |
| 5 | u3 gur-a | and returned |
| 6 | u4 3(disz)-sze3 kun-zi-da e2-amar-ka ma2 da-a | for 3 workdays at the kunzida stationed in Eamarka barge with Aya |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u4 1(disz)-sze3 ma2 bala ak | for 1 workday, barge bala done; |
| 2 | u3 u4 3(disz)-sze3 sze bala | and for 3 days barley bala |
| 3 | u3 guru7 im ur3-ra | and the silo with clay piled up |
| 4 | ugula ur-{d}en-lil2-la2 | foreman: Ur-Enlila; |
| 5 | kiszib3 lu2-du10-ga | under seal of Lu-duga |
| 6 | mu en-unu6-gal {d}inanna ba-hun | year: “Enunugal of Inanna was installed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-du10-ga | Lu-duga, |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu he2-ma-du | son of Hemadu, |
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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