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BPOA 01, 0022 (P316068)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0022 |
|---|---|
| ID | P316068 |
| Museum no. | BM 014657 |
| 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 | 2(asz) udu-nita2 | 2 male sheep, |
| 2 | sza3-ba 3(disz) udu ugu2-bi 1(u) | therefrom: 3 sheep, its herd: 10 |
| 3 | a-ra2 1(disz)-kam | for the first time |
| 4 | 1(asz) udu-nita2 | 1 ram, |
| 5 | sza3-ba 5(disz) udu ugu2-bi 8(disz) | therefrom: 5 sheep, its load: 8 |
| 6 | a-ra2 2(disz)-kam | 2nd time |
| 7 | <n udu-nita2> | n male sheep |
| 8 | sza3-ba 1(u) udu ugu2-bi 1(u) 7(disz) | therein: 10 rams, its labor: 17 |
| 9 | a-ra2 3(disz)-kam | 3 times |
| 10 | ur-mes dumu i3-du10-ga 5(asz) | Ur-mes, son of Iduga: 5 |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 5(disz) u8 3(u) 5(disz) udu-nita2 | 5 ewes, 35 rams |
| 2 | lugal-ur-sag 4(u) | Lugal-ursag 40 |
| 3 | 5(disz) udu 1(u) 6(disz) udu-nita2 | 5 sheep, 16 rams, |
| 4 | ur-nigar{gar} 2(u) 1(disz) | Ur-nigar: 21 |
| 5 | szunigin 6(gesz2) 1(disz) udu | total: 61 sheep |
| 6 | udu ba-ur4 u4 3(disz)-kam | fattened sheep, 3rd day, |
| 7 | sza3 gu2-ab-ba{ki} | in Guabba |
| 8 | mu en {d}inanna masz-e i3-pa3 | year: “The en-priestess of Inanna by goat was chosen;’ |
Sources & licences
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- 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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