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BPOA 06, 1269 (P292472)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 1269 |
|---|---|
| ID | P292472 |
| Museum no. | NBC 00715 |
| 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(disz) gurusz sza3 sahar-ra u4 5(disz)-sze3 | 1 male laborer in the dust for 5 days, |
| 2 | zi3 ma2-a si-ga | flour loaded into a barge |
| 3 | 1(disz) gurusz u4 2(u)-sze3 | 1 male laborer for 20 days |
| 4 | a-pi4-sal4{ki}-ta | from Apisal |
| 5 | e2-sag-da-na-ta! | from the Esagdana |
| 6 | ma2 gid2-da | barge punted |
| 7 | u3 ma2 su gur-ra | and the barge returned, |
| 8 | 1(disz) gurusz u4 5(disz)-sze3 | 1 male laborer for 5 days |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ma2 zi3 ba-al-la | barge with flour disbursed |
| 2 | u3 bala-a | and bala |
| 3 | ugula lugal-nig2-lagar-e | foreman: Lugal-nig-lagare; |
| 4 | iti {d}pa4-u2-e | month: “Pa’ue, |
| 5 | mu {d}amar-{d}suen lugal | year: “Amar-Suen is king. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-ku3-zu | Lugal-kuzu |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu lugal-e2-mah-e | son of Lugal-emaḫe, |
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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