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BPOA 01, 0031 (P317346)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0031 |
|---|---|
| ID | P317346 |
| Museum no. | BM 016044 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| 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 | 2(barig) ur-mes | 2 barig, Ur-mes |
| 2 | 1(barig) lugal-{gesz}gigir-re | 60 litres (of barley for) Lugal-gigirre |
| 3 | 1(barig) ur-{d}szul-pa-e3 | 1 barig, Ur-Šulpa’e; |
| 4 | nam-<1(u)> ARAD2-mu | the office of a servant |
| 5 | 2(barig) lugal-uszur3 | 2 barig Lugal-ušur |
| 6 | 3(ban2) lu2-eb-gal | 3 ban2: Lu-ebgal; |
| 7 | 1(barig) szesz-a-ni | 60 litres (of barley for) Šešani |
| 8 | 2(barig) sze inim-{d}szara2 | 2 barig barley (for) Inim-Šara |
| 9 | 1(barig) sze ARAD2-[...] | 1 barig barley (for) ARAD- |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 3(ban2) ARAD2-[...] | 3 seahs, ARAD-; |
| 2 | szunigin 2(asz) 1(barig) gur 1(asz) 2(barig) [...] | total: 2 gur 1 barig, 1 gur 2 barig |
| 3 | ugula ur-{d}gesztin-an-ka | foreman: Ur-Geštinanka |
| 4 | 3(ban2) ur-{d}utu | 3 ban2 Ur-Utu |
| 5 | 1(barig) ur-am3-ma | 60 litres (of barley for) Ur-ama |
| 6 | 1(barig) a-kal-la | 60 litres (of barley for) Akalla |
| 7 | 1(barig) sza3-ku3-ge | 60 litres (of barley for) Ša-kuge |
| 8 | 1(barig) {d}szara2-kam | 60 litres (of barley) 1 for Šarakam |
| 9 | 3(ban2) lu2-{d}nin-[...] | 3 ban2: Lu-Nin- |
| 10 | 1(barig) na-ba-sa6 | 1 barig, Nabasa |
| 11 | ugula ur-{d}isztaran | foreman: Ur-Ištaran; |
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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