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BPOA 01, 0046 (P317481)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0046 |
|---|---|
| ID | P317481 |
| Museum no. | BM 016143 |
| 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) masz2 niga ki lu2-dingir-ra-ta | 1 grain-fed kid from Lu-dingira, |
| 4 | 1(disz) masz2 niga ki an-ne2-ta | 1 grain-fed buck from An, |
| 5 | 1(disz) udu niga ki {d}nanna-si-sa2-ta | 1 sheep, barley-fed, from Nanna-sisa |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 2(disz) udu 2(disz) masz2 | 2 sheep, 2 billy goats, |
| 2 | nig2 sza3-te-sze3 | as a gift |
| 3 | e2-udu e2 ur-dun-ta | from the sheep house of Urdun |
| 4 | iti ezem-{d}szul-gi u4 2(u) ba-zal | month: “Festival-of-Šulgi, the day 20 passed;’ |
| 5 | 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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