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BPOA 06, 1203 (P292400)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 1203 |
|---|---|
| ID | P292400 |
| Museum no. | NBC 00635 |
| 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 | 4(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 bala gub-ba | 4 workdays, male laborers stationed in bala, |
| 2 | 4(disz) gurusz u4 3(disz) 1/2(disz)-sze3 | 4 male laborers for 3 1/2 days |
| 3 | nibru{ki}-sze3 gen-na | to Nippur went, |
| 4 | nibru{ki}-ta gen-na | came from Nippur, |
| 5 | ugula lugal-ma2-gur8-re | foreman: Lugal-magure; |
| 6 | kiszib3 ensi2-ka | under seal of the governor |
| 7 | iti sig4-{gesz}i3-szub-ga2-ra | of the month “Bricks cast in moulds,' |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | mu us2-sa ur-bi2-lum ba-hul | year following: "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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