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BPOA 06, 1406 (P291901)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 1406 |
|---|---|
| ID | P291901 |
| Museum no. | NBC 00986 |
| 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) 1(disz) gurusz {gesz}nig2-gul 1(u) 2(disz) sar-ta | 11 male laborers, ‘cutting-of-the-throat’ at 12 sar (a day), |
| 2 | 1(u) 2(disz) gurusz al 5(disz) sar-ta | 12 male laborers, hoed at 5 sar (per day), |
| 3 | GAN2 ha-an-da | field Ḫanda, |
| 4 | ugula lu2-giri17-zal | foreman: Lu-girizal, |
| 5 | 6(disz) gurusz {gesz}nig2-gul 1(u) 2(disz) sar-ta | 6 male laborers, ‘cutting-of-the-throat’ at 12 sar (a day), |
| 6 | GAN2 ur-{d}nin-su | field of Ur-Ninsu, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ugula da-du-mu | foreman: Dadumu; |
| 2 | u4 6(disz)-kam | the 6th day |
| 3 | a-sza3 GAN2 ur-gu | field Urgu; |
| 4 | iti szu-numun | month: “Sowing,’ |
| 5 | mu en eridu{ki} ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Eridu was installed. |
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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