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BPOA 07, 1596 (P290914)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 1596 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290914 |
| Museum no. | NBC 01961 |
| 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 | 6(disz) gurusz | 6 male laborers |
| 2 | 4(u) 4(disz) ug3-IL2 4(ban2) | 44 porters, 4 ban2 (= 40 sila3) |
| 3 | u4 1(disz)-sze3 | for 1 day |
| 4 | ki-su7 {d}szul-pa-e3 | the courtyard of Šulpa’e, |
| 5 | sze bala-a | barley transferred |
| 6 | e2-duru5 {d}szul-pa-e3-sze3 | to the village of Šulpa’e |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | sze zi-ga | barley rations |
| 2 | u3 guru7-a im ur3-ra | and the silo where clay was heaped up, |
| 3 | ugula za3-mu | foreman: Zamu; |
| 4 | kiszib3 gu-du-du | under seal of Gududu |
| 5 | mu en eridu{ki} ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Eridu was installed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | inim-{d}szara2 | Inim-Šara |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-nigar{gar} szusz3 | son of Ur-nigar, cattle manager |
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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