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BPOA 01, 0006 (P315548)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0006 |
|---|---|
| ID | P315548 |
| Museum no. | BM 012476 |
| 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 | 4(u) gu2 esir2 a-ba-al | 40 talents of bitumen for Abal; |
| 2 | ga2-nun gesz-ta | from the threshing floor |
| 3 | ma2 aga3-us2 lugal-ke4-ne-sze3 | to the boat of the king’s soldiers |
| 4 | [ki ur]-{d}iszkur ma2-lah5 | from Ur-Iškur the boatman |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}ba-ba6 | Ur-Baba |
| 2 | szu ba-ti | received. |
| 3 | iti ezem-{d}dumu-zi | month: “Festival-of-Dumuzi,’ |
| 4 | mu gu-za {d}en-lil2-la2 ba-dim2 | year: “The throne of Enlil was fashioned;’ |
| obverse | ||
| 1 | 4(u) gu2 esir2 a-ba-al | 40 talents of bitumen for Abal; |
| 2 | ga2-nun gesz-ta | from the threshing floor |
| 3 | ma2 aga3-us2 lugal-ke4-ne-sze3 | to the boat of the king’s soldiers |
| 4 | [ki ur]-{d}iszkur ma2-lah5 | from Ur-Iškur the boatman |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | kiszib3 ur-{d}ba-ba6 dub-sar mar-sa | under seal of Ur-Baba, scribe of the merchants; |
| 2 | iti ezem-{d}dumu-zi | month: “Festival-of-Dumuzi,’ |
| 3 | mu gu-za {d}en-lil2-la2 ba-dim2 | year: “The throne of Enlil was fashioned;’ |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}ba-ba6 | Ur-Baba |
| 2 | dub-sar mar-sa | scribe of the merchants, |
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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