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BPOA 06, 1270 (P292473)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 1270 |
|---|---|
| ID | P292473 |
| Museum no. | NBC 00716 |
| 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(barig) 2(iku) 1/2(iku) GAN2 tug2-gurx(|SZE.KIN|) | 2 barig 2 1/2 iku surface area, garments |
| 2 | 1/2(iku) 1(disz) sar GAN2 gesz a-ra2 3(disz) 4(iku) 1/2(iku) GAN2-ta | 1/2 iku 1 sar field area, harrowing, 3 times, at 4 1/2 [iku field area each], |
| 3 | 2(barig) 1(iku) 1/2(iku) GAN2 gesz a-ra2 2(disz) 4(iku) 1/2(iku) GAN2-ta | 2 barig 1 1/2 iku field area, harrowing, 2 times, at 4 1/2 <iku surface area> each; |
| 4 | 2(u) 5(disz) gurusz sza3-gu4 al 3(disz) sar-ta | 25 male laborers, oxen-drivers, hoed at 3 sar (per day), |
| 5 | a-sza3-ge kin ak | work on the field |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-sza3 en-du8-du | field Endudu, |
| 2 | ugula i-szar-ru-um | foreman: Išarrum |
| 3 | kiszib3 ukken-ne2 | sealed documents of the assembly |
| 4 | mu si-ma-num2{ki} ba-hul | year: “Simanum was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ukken-ne2 | of the assembly |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{gesz}gigir | son of Ur-gigir, |
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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