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BPOA 07, 1639 (P290959)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 1639 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290959 |
| Museum no. | NBC 02009 |
| 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(disz) {gi}pisan im-sar-ra esir2 su-ba | 1 basket of imsara-textiles, covered with bitumen, |
| 2 | 1(disz) {gi}ma-ti-ni-um im-sar esir2 su-ba | 1 matinium reed basket with bitumen, |
| 3 | a2 u4 2(disz)-ta im a-sza3 ba-dab5-ba | labor of 2 days, clay tablet of the field being seized, |
| 4 | e2-gal-sze3 | to the palace |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ba-an-ga2-ar | he shall pay. |
| 2 | giri3 i-di3-szu2-szi-ni lu2 kin-gi4-a | via Iddišušini, messenger |
| 3 | kiszib3 lu2-kal-la | under seal of Lukalla |
| 4 | mu us2-sa ma2 {d}en-ki | year following: “The barge of Enki |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-kal-la | Lukalla |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-e11-e szusz3 | son of Ur-e’e, 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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