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BPOA 06, 1255 (P292455)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 1255 |
|---|---|
| ID | P292455 |
| Museum no. | NBC 00697 |
| 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 | 2(disz) {uruda}ha-zi-in | 2 axes, |
| 2 | ki-la2-bi 1(disz) 2/3(disz) ma-na 4(disz) gin2 | their weight: 1 2/3 minas 4 shekels |
| 3 | 1(gesz2) 1(u) 2(disz) {uruda}gur10 | 102 copper gur |
| 4 | ki-la2-bi 1(u) 1(disz) ma-na | their weight: 11 mana |
| 5 | 3(gesz2) 3(u) 1(disz) {uruda}ha-bu3-da | 131 hambuda-tools, |
| 6 | ki-la2-bi 1(asz) gu2 2(u) 5(disz) 2/3(disz) ma-na 5(disz) gin2 | its weight: 1 talent 25 2/3 minas 5 shekels; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | kin [til-la] | finished work |
| 2 | ki da-da-ga-ta | from Dadaga |
| 3 | ensi2-ke4 in-la2 | the ruler has paid. |
| 4 | iti {d}dumu-zi | month: “Dumuzi,’ |
| 5 | mu us2-sa ki-masz{ki} ba-hul | year after: “Kimaš 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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