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BPOA 01, 0042 (P317410)

Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE

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Designation	BPOA 01, 0042
ID	P317410
Museum no.	BM 016096
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	1(disz) udu niga	1 sheep, grain-fed,
2	ki lu2-ma2-gan{ki}-ta	from Lu-Magan
3	1(disz) udu-nita2 ki an-ne2-ta	1 sheep from An,
4	1(disz) udu-nita2	1 ram,
5	ki lu2-dingir-ra-ta	from Lu-dingira
6	1(disz) udu niga	1 sheep, grain-fed,
reverse
1	ki {d}nanna-si-sa2-ta	from Nanna-sisa
2	nig2 sza3-te-sze3	as a gift
3	e2 ur-dun-ta	from the house of Ur-Dun
4	4(disz) udu niga	4 sheep, grain-fed,
5	iti ezem-{d}ba-ba6	month: “Festival-of-Baba,’
6	u4 1(u) 8(disz) ba-zal	18th day passed;
7	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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