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BPOA 06, 1141 (P290838)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 1141 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290838 |
| Museum no. | NBC 00558 |
| 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(u) sar kin sahar | 10 sar soil, |
| 2 | u3-ki-ta de6-a | from Ukida taken away, |
| 3 | sza3 e2-duru5 {d}szul-pa-e3 | in the village of Šulpa’e |
| 4 | 1(u) 6(disz) gurusz u4 3(disz)-sze3 | 16 male laborers for 3 days |
| 5 | bar-la2 u3-sur ma2-gur8-ra | ... of the barge barges, |
| 6 | a-e3-a gub-ba | stationed in the water, |
| 7 | ugula gu2-tar | foreman: Gutar; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | giri3 nig2-ul-pa-e3 ku3-gal2 | via Niŋulpa’e, the goldsmith; |
| 2 | kiszib3 nam-sza3-tam lugal-ku3-zu | under seal of Lugal-kuzu; |
| 3 | mu bad3 mar-tu ba-du3 | year: “The Amorite wall was erected. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-ku3-zu | Lugal-kuzu |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-nigar{gar} szusz3 | son of Ur-nigar, cattle manager |
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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