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BPOA 06, 1398 (P291893)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 1398 |
|---|---|
| ID | P291893 |
| Museum no. | NBC 00978 |
| 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(bur3) GAN2 gesz a-ra2 1(disz) 1(esze3) GAN2-ta | 1 bur3 field area, harrowing, at 1 eše3 per day, |
| 2 | a2-bi u4 1(u) la2 1(disz) | its labor: 9 days; |
| 3 | szuku engar | Šuku, the plowman |
| 4 | a-sza3 {d}szara2 | field of Šara |
| 5 | ugula lugal-e2-mah-e | foreman: Lugal-emaḫe; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | kiszib3 lugal-e2-mah-e | under seal of Lugal-emaḫe; |
| 2 | mu en eridu{ki} ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Eridu was installed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-e2-mah-e | Lugal-emaḫe, |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu lugal-ku3-ga-ni | son of Lugal-kugani, |
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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