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BPOA 07, 2039 (P290834)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 2039 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290834 |
| Museum no. | NBC 03122 |
| 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(disz) 5/6(disz) sar sahar | 2 5/6 sar of soil, |
| 2 | pa4 a-da-ga a-bu3-du-du-ke4 szu2-luh ak | The canal of Adaga, Abududu, is a šuluḫ. |
| 3 | 1(disz) 1/2(disz) sar pa4 a-da-ga | 1 1/2 sar, irrigated land of Adaga |
| 4 | e2-gir-gi4-lu-ka szu2-luh ak | In the Eŋirgilu, cleansing is performed. |
| 5 | 1(u) 1(disz) gurusz kab2-ku5 na-ra-am-{d}suen gub-ba | 11 male laborers, captives, Naram-Sîn stationed |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(u) 5(disz) gurusz u4 2(disz)-sze3 sila ku5-ra2 i7 e2-ansze-ka | 15 workdays, male laborers, in the street cut, at the Eanše canal, |
| 2 | a2 lu2 hun-ga2 | labor of hirelings |
| 3 | ugula ur-{gesz}gigir | foreman: Ur-gigir |
| 4 | kiszib3 lu2-gi-na | under seal of Lu-gina |
| 5 | iti e2 iti-6(disz) | month: “House of Six Months,’ |
| 6 | mu ma2 {d}en-ki ba-ab-du8 | year: “The boat of Enki was caulked. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-gi-na | Lu-gina |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu sza3-ku3-ge | son of Šakuge, |
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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