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BPOA 07, 2878 (P303673)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 2878 |
|---|---|
| ID | P303673 |
| Museum no. | NCBT 01630 |
| Collection | Newell Collections of Babylonian Tablets, 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 | 4(u) 6(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 46 workdays, male laborers |
| 2 | e2-masz gub-ba | in the Emaš stationed |
| 3 | 3(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 30 male laborer workdays, |
| 4 | ka i7 sal4-la{ki} sahar si-ga | the mouth of the Salla canal filled with dust, |
| 5 | u3 e sa-dur2-ra e2 | and the house of the sadurru-festival, |
| 6 | ur-gu gub-ba | Urgu stationed |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ugula ur-lugal | foreman: Ur-lugal; |
| 2 | giri3 {d}szara2-he2-gal2 | via Šara-hegal |
| 3 | kiszib3 lu2-{d}szul-gi-ra | under seal of Lu-Šulgi |
| 4 | mu ma2-gur8-mah ba-dim2 | year: “The great barge was fashioned. |
| seal 1 col 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}szu-{d}suen | Šū-Suen, |
| 2 | lugal kal-ga | mighty king |
| 3 | lugal uri5{ki}-ma | king of Ur |
| 4 | lugal an-ub-da limmu2?-ba | king of the four world quarters, |
| seal 1 col 2 | ||
| 1 | lu2-{d}szul-gi-ra | for Lu-Šulgi |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu da-da-ga | son of Dadaga, |
| 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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