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BPOA 07, 1641 (P290961)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 1641 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290961 |
| Museum no. | NBC 02011 |
| 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 | [...] 3(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | ... 3 male laborers for 1 day |
| 2 | en-du8-du-ta | from Endudu |
| 3 | ga2-nun gu2-de3-na-<sze3> | To the storehouse of Gudea |
| 4 | gi zex(SIG7)-a | ... reed |
| 5 | a-a-kal-la ugula ug3-IL2 | Ayakalla, foreman of the porters; |
| 6 | u3 gi SZID-da | and a reed is cut. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 8(disz) gurusz u4 2(disz)-sze3 | 8 male laborers for 2 days |
| 2 | en-du8-du-ta | from Endudu |
| 3 | gu2 i7 kun nagar-sze3 | to the bank of the tail canal of the carpenter |
| 4 | gi zex(SIG7)-a lu2-{d}szara2 ga6-ga2 | ... reed carried by Lu-Šara |
| 5 | 9(disz) gurusz u4 2(disz)-sze3 | 9 male laborers for 2 days |
| 6 | ga2-nun {gesz}ab-ba-ta | from the storehouse of the threshing floor |
| 7 | dub-la2-{d}utu-sze3 ma2-la2-a | to the Dubla-Utu barge |
| 8 | gu2 [...] la2-a | ... stretched out |
| 9 | iti szu-numun | month: “Sowing,’ |
| 10 | mu [...] | year ... |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}szara2 | Ur-Šara |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu szesz-kal-la | son of Šeškalla |
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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