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BPOA 07, 1640 (P290960)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 1640 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290960 |
| Museum no. | NBC 02010 |
| 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 3(disz)-sze3 | 4 male laborers for 3 days |
| 2 | kar umma{ki}-ta | from the port of Umma |
| 3 | ma2 su3 gid2-da | long boats |
| 4 | du6-ku3-sig17-sze3 | to the Holy Mound |
| 5 | u4 1(disz)-sze3 ma2-la2-a kesz2-ra2 | for 1 workday barge bound, |
| 6 | u4 4(disz)-sze3 ma2-la2-a gid2-da | for 4 workdays, barge punted, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u4 [1(disz)-sze3] ma2 ba-al-la | for 1 workday barge unloaded |
| 2 | kar umma{ki}-ta | from the port of Umma |
| 3 | ugula a-kal-la | foreman: Akalla |
| 4 | kiszib3 a-gu | under seal of Agu |
| 5 | mu ma2 {d}en-ki ba-ab-du8 | year: “The boat of Enki was caulked. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | a-gu | Agu, |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu lugal-e2-mah-e | son of Lugal-emaḫe, |
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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