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BPOA 07, 1646 (P290966)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 1646 |
|---|---|
| ID | P290966 |
| Museum no. | NBC 02016 |
| 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(gesz'u) 5(gesz2) 3(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 zar3 tab-ba | 90 workdays, male laborers, strewn loaves, |
| 2 | 9(gesz2) 1(u) 6(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 ki-su7-ra gub-ba | 96 workdays, male laborers stationed in the Kisu, |
| 3 | 2(gesz2) 2(u) 5(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 a-da gub-ba | 165 workdays, male laborers stationed at the water-heap, |
| 4 | a-sza3 amar-{gesz}kiszi17 | field Amar-kiši |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u3 a-sza3 gu2-edin-na | and the field Gu-edina |
| 2 | iti sig4-{gesz}i3-szub-ba-ga2-la-ta | from month “Bricks cast in moulds,’ |
| 3 | iti nesag-sze3 | to month “nesag offerings,’ |
| 4 | ugula ur-e2-nun-na | foreman: Ur-Enunna; |
| 5 | kiszib3 ur-{d}en-lil2-la2 | under seal of Ur-Enlila; |
| 6 | mu {gesz}gu-za {d}en-lil2-la2 ba-dim2 | year: “The throne of Enlil was fashioned;’ |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}en-lil2-la2 | Ur-Enlila, |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu lugal-ku3-ga-ni | son of Lugal-kugani, |
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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