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BPOA 07, 1854 (P291556)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 1854 |
|---|---|
| ID | P291556 |
| Museum no. | NBC 02886 |
| 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(u) gurusz ugula lu2-{d}szara2 | 10 male laborers, foreman: Lu-Šara |
| 2 | 1(u) gurusz ugula lugal-ma2-gur8-re | 10 male laborers, foreman: Lugal-magure |
| 3 | 8(disz) gurusz ugula igi-husz | 8 male laborers, foreman: Igihuš |
| 4 | 6(disz) gurusz ugula lugal-ukken-ne2 | 6 male laborers, foreman: Lugal-ukkene |
| 5 | 5(disz) gurusz ugula ur-{d}a-szar2 | 5 male laborers, foreman: Ur-Ašar |
| 6 | 1(u) gurusz ugula nig2-ul-pa-e3 | 10 male laborers, foreman: Nig-ul-pa'e |
| 7 | 6(disz) gurusz ugula da-da | 6 male laborers, foreman: Dada |
| 8 | 4(disz) geme2 ugula ur-{d}suen | 4 female laborers, foreman: Ur-Suen |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 4(disz) geme2 ugula {d}szara2-za-me | 4 female laborers, foreman: Šara-zame |
| 2 | 4(disz) geme2 ugula lugal-e2-mah-e | 4 female laborers, foreman: Lugal-emaḫe |
| 3 | 4(disz) geme2 ugula lu2-bala-saga | 4 female laborers, foreman: Lu-bala-saga |
| 4 | gurum2 ak u4 1(disz)-kam | inspections performed, 1st day, |
| 5 | ka i7-da-ta umma{ki}-sze3 | from the mouth of the river to Umma |
| 6 | ma2 gid2-da u3 sze ba-al-la | barge punted and barley carried, |
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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