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BPOA 07, 2454 (P293797)

Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE

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Designation	BPOA 07, 2454
ID	P293797
Museum no.	NBC 04235
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	1(u) 3(disz) gu4	13 oxen
2	5(disz) udu bar-su-ga 5(disz) [sila4]	5 sheep with fleece, 5 lambs
3	2(disz) dur3-gesz	2 (mana wool for) Ur-geš
4	1(disz) eme6-mah2	1 ememaḫ
5	ri-ri-ga didli giri3 kas4	rīrāga, all of it, via Kas;
6	1(u) la2 1(disz) gu4 ab2 hi-a ri-ri-ga	9 oxen, cows, plucked,
7	giri3 lu2-he2-gal2	via Lu-hegal
8	3(u) 3(disz) gu4 ab2 hi-a ri-ri-ga	33 oxen, suckling cows,
9	giri3 ab-ba-gi-na	via Abbagina
10	5(u) 4(disz) udu bar-su-ga	54 sheep, barsuga,
11	3(u) la2 1(disz) ud5 masz2 hi-a	30 less 1 nanny goats, billy goats
12	ri-ri-ga giri3 ur-{d}utu	ropes, via Ur-Utu,
13	3(disz) udu bar-su-ga ri-ri-ga giri3 lu2-dingir-ra	3 sheep, ..., via Lu-dingira,
14	1(u) 1(disz) ansze hi-a ri-ri-ga	11 donkeys, plucked,
15	giri3 du-u2-a-ni	via Duwani
16	1(disz) gu4 e2-gu4 ri-ri-ga	1 ox, ririga-house,
17	giri3 sza3-ku3-ge	via Šakuge
18	[...] udu bar-gal2 ri-ri-ga	... sheep that has no fleece
19	giri3 ur-{d}szara2 sipa	via Ur-Šara, the shepherd;
20	[...] 3(disz) udu bar-gal2 ri-ri-ga	... 3 sheep, fleece-covered, suckling
21	[giri3] ur-{gesz}<gigir> sipa	via Ur-gigir, the shepherd
22	[...] ud5 masz2 hi-a ri-ri-ga	... nanny goats and kids ...
23	giri3 {d}szara2-i3-sa6 sipa	via Šara-isa, the shepherd;
24	[...] ud5 masz2 hi-a ri-ri-ga	... nanny goats and kids ...
reverse
1	giri3 {d}szara2-kam sipa	via Šarakam, the shepherd;
2	[...] ri-ri-ga	... of the wild bull
3	giri3 lugal-dalla	via Lugal-dalla
4	[...] bar-su-ga ba-usz2	... died in the outer ...
5	giri3 bi2-da	via Bida
6	[...] udu bar-su-ga ri-ri-ga	... sheep ...
7	giri3 inim-{d}szara2	via Inim-Šara;
8	5(disz) udu bar-gal2 ri-ri-ga	5 fleece-covered sheep,
9	giri3 hu-un-sa6-mu sipa	via Ḫunsamu, the shepherd
10	ri-ri-ga-am3	it is a wild bull
11	2(disz) udu bar-su-ga 2(disz) masz2	2 sheep with fleece, 2 billy goats,
12	a-sza3 kesz2-ra2 giri3 masz-masz-e-ne	field Keš, via the exorcists;
13	6(disz) udu bar-su-ga siskur2-sze3 ilx(KAR2)	6 stripped sheep for the siskur-offering
14	giri3 dub-sar lugal-ke4-ne	via the royal scribes;
15	ki kas4-ta	from Kas;
16	kiszib3 ensi2-ka	under seal of the governor
17	mu {d}amar-{d}suen lugal-e ur-bi2-lum{ki} mu-hul	year: “Amar-Suen, the king, Urbilum destroyed.‭

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