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BPOA 06, 1396 (P291891)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 1396 |
|---|---|
| ID | P291891 |
| Museum no. | NBC 00976 |
| 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(disz) udu ur-{d}ba-ba6 engar | 1 sheep: Ur-Baba, the plowman; |
| 2 | 1(disz) masz2 ka-ka engar | 1 billy goat, Kaka, the plowman; |
| 3 | ugula lu2-du10-ga dub-sar gu4 1(u) | foreman: Lu-duga, scribe, 10 oxen |
| 4 | 1(disz) masz2 lu2-{d}inanna engar | 1 billy goat: Lu-Inanna, the plowman; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ugula ur-{d}en-lil2-la2 | foreman: Ur-Enlila; |
| 2 | 1(disz) masz2 da-a-gi4 agar4-nigin2 | 1 billy goat, Da’agi, agar-nigin, |
| 3 | szu bar-ra sza3 gu2-edin-na | outside, in the Gu’edena |
| 4 | kiszib3 ensi2-ka | under seal of the governor |
| 5 | mu ur-bi2-lum{ki} ba-hul | year: “Urbilum was destroyed. |
| seal 1 col 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}szul-gi | Šulgi |
| 2 | nita kal-ga | the strong man |
| 3 | lugal uri5{ki}-ma | king of Ur |
| 4 | lugal an-ub-da limmu2-ba | king of the four quarters |
| seal 1 col 2 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}li9-si4 | Ur-Lisi, |
| 2 | ensi2 | governor |
| 3 | umma{ki} | of Umma |
| 4 | ARAD2-zu | your servant. |
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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