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BPOA 01, 0004 (P315541)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0004 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315541 |
| Museum no. | BM 012467 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Girsu (mod. Tello) |
| Coordinates | 31.5591, 46.1776 |
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' | ugula {d}utu-mu | foreman: Utu-mu |
| 2' | 1(u) 4(disz) tug2 da-ba-tum | 14 dabatum textiles, |
| 3' | sziti gu2-tar-bi 9(disz) 1/3(disz) ma-na | its gutar grain: 9 1/3 minas; |
| 4' | siki mug-bi 4(u) 9(disz) 2/3(disz) ma-na | its wool: 49 2/3 minas; |
| 5' | ugula ur3-re-ba-du7 | foreman: Ur-rebadu; |
| 6' | 2(u) 6(disz) tug2 da-ba-tum | 26 dabatum textiles, |
| 7' | sziti gu2-tar-bi 1(u) 7(disz) 1/3(disz) ma-na | its gutar grain: 17 1/3 mina; |
| 8' | siki mug-bi 1(asz) gu2 4(u) 3(disz) ma-na | the wool of its mug: 1 talent 43 minas; |
| 9' | ugula ur-{d}nin-gesz-zi-da | foreman: Ur-Ningešzida |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(u) 6(disz) tug2 da-ba-tum | 16 dabatum textiles, |
| 2 | sziti gu2-tar-bi 1(u) 2/3(disz) ma-na | its gutar-measure: 12 2/3 minas; |
| 3 | siki mug-bi 1(asz) gu2 2(disz) 1/3(disz) ma-na | the wool of its mug: 1 talent 2 1/3 mana; |
| 4 | ugula [...] | foreman: |
| left | ||
| 1 | [mu ...]{ki} ba-hul | year: “... was destroyed. |
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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