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BPOA 06, 1183 (P292375)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 1183 |
|---|---|
| ID | P292375 |
| Museum no. | NBC 00609 |
| 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)
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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) 1/2(disz) gurusz dumu-gi7 | 10 1/2 male laborers, “dumugi-workers’, |
| 2 | 6(disz) gurusz ug3-IL2 | 6 male laborers, porters, |
| 3 | u4 4(u) la2 1(disz)-sze3 | for 49 days |
| 4 | a2-bi u4 1(gesz'u) 4(u) 3(disz) 1/2(disz)-kam | its labor: 93 1/2 days; |
| 5 | sza3-bi-ta | therefrom: |
| 6 | 5(gesz2) 5(u) 6(disz) 1/3(disz) gu-nigin2 gurusz-e nigin2 3(disz)-ta | 356 1/3 gu-nig-in, male laborers, total: 3 (workdays); |
| 7 | a2-bi u4 [2(gesz2)] la2 1(disz)-kam | its labor: 190 less 1 workdays |
| 8 | 4(disz) 1/2(disz) sar sahar gurusz-e 1(u) gin2-ta | 4 1/2 sar of soil, the workmen 10 shekels each, |
| 9 | a2-bi u4 2(u) 7(disz)-kam | its labor: 27 days; |
| 10 | a-<sza3> {d}szara2! | the field of Šara |
| 11 | 6(disz) ug3-IL2 | 6 porters, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u4 4(disz)-sze3 | for 4 days |
| 2 | a2-bi u4 2(u) 4(disz)-kam | its labor: 24 days; |
| 3 | u4-du8-a ug3-IL2 | for the “day-of-the-moonrise-to-sunrise-time’, the porter; |
| 4 | szunigin 2(gesz2) 5(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | total: 190 workdays, male laborers, |
| 5 | zi-ga-am3 | booked out, |
| 6 | la2-ia3 7(gesz2) 5(u) 3(disz) 1/2(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | Deficit: 73 1/2 workdays, male laborers, |
| 7 | nig2-ka9-ak | accounts |
| 8 | gi-zi zex(SIG7)-a | reed bundles |
| 9 | a-a-gi-na ugula | Aya-gina, foreman; |
| 10 | mu ki-masz{ki} ba-hul | year: “Kimaš was destroyed. |
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