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BPOA 07, 1642 (P290962)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 1642 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290962 |
| Museum no. | NBC 02012 |
| 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 | 2(disz) gurusz u4 1(u)-sze3 | 2 male laborers for 10 days |
| 2 | ma2 su3 kar umma{ki}-ta | barge from the port of Umma, |
| 3 | ur2-bi-an-na{ki}-asz | Urbianaš |
| 4 | ma2 su3 <gid2>-da u4 3(disz)-sze3 | a long barge for 3 days |
| 5 | sze bala-a | barley transferred |
| 6 | sze ma2-a si-ga | barley loaded into a barge |
| 7 | u4 2(disz)-sze3 ma2 bala ak | for 2 workdays, barge bala done; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u4 6(disz)-sze3 ma2 diri-ga | for 6 workdays barge floated |
| 2 | umma{ki}-sze3 | to Umma |
| 3 | u4 2(disz)-sze3 sze bala-a | for 2 workdays, barley transferred, |
| 4 | sze ma2-a si-ga | barley loaded into a barge |
| 5 | sza3 umma{ki} | in Umma |
| 6 | ugula {d}szara2-a-mu | foreman: Šara-amu; |
| 7 | kiszib3 ur-{d}suen | under seal of Ur-Suen |
| 8 | mu ma2 {d}en-ki ba-ab-du8 | year: “The boat of Enki was caulked. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}suen | Ur-Suen |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-e2-nun-na | son of Ur-Enuna, |
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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