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BPOA 06, 1249 (P292449)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 1249 |
|---|---|
| ID | P292449 |
| Museum no. | NBC 00690 |
| 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 | 3(gesz2) 5(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 185 workdays, male laborers, |
| 2 | ki-su7 sahar-u2-u2 gub-ba | standing in a clean place, |
| 3 | giri3 ur-ge6-par4 | via Ur-gepar |
| 4 | 4(u) 8(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 48 male laborer workdays |
| 5 | ki-su7 usz-gid2-da gub-ba | stationed at the threshing floor, |
| 6 | giri3 lu2-he2-gal2 | via Lu-hegal |
| 7 | ugula ur-{d}nin-su | foreman: Ur-Ninsu; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | kiszib3 nam-sza3-tam | under seal of Namšatam |
| 2 | lugal-ku3-zu | Lugal-kuzu |
| 3 | mu us2-sa ma2 {d}en-ki ba-ab-du8 | year following: “The boat of Enki was caulked. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-ku3-zu | Lugal-kuzu |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-nigar{gar} szusz3 | son of Ur-nigar, cattle manager |
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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