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BPOA 07, 1577 (P291274)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 1577 |
|---|---|
| ID | P291274 |
| Museum no. | NBC 01936 |
| 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 | 7(gesz2) 5(u) 3(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 133 workdays, male laborers, |
| 2 | sze gurx(|SZE.KIN|)-a zar3 tab-ba | barley remitted, grain heaped up, |
| 3 | a-sza3 ka-ma-ri2{ki} | the field Kamari |
| 4 | 4(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 4 male laborers for 1 day |
| 5 | kab2-ku5-ra2 ki-gam-ma gub-ba | stationed at the quay, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ugula szesz-kal-la | foreman: Šeškalla |
| 2 | kiszib3 lu2-{d}szara2 dumu ur-{gesz}gigir | under seal of Lu-Šara, son of Ur-gigir; |
| 3 | mu si-ma-num2{ki} ba-hul | year: “Simanum was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-{d}szara2 | Lu-Šara |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{gesz}gigir | son of Ur-gigir, |
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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