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BPOA 01, 0049 (P317722)
Administrative, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0049 |
|---|---|
| ID | P317722 |
| Museum no. | BM 017954 |
| 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(u) 3(disz) ma-na siki-ud5 | 13 mana wool for nanny goats, |
| 2 | siki ur-ra-sze3 | wool for a dog |
| 3 | 1/2(disz) ma-na siki-gi | 1/2 mana wool, |
| 4 | egir szeg9-bar-sze3 | behind the plow |
| 5 | 3(disz) ma-na siki gir2-gul | 3 mana wool from Girgul, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 3(disz) ma-na siki-ud5 | 3 mana wool for nanny goats, |
| 2 | apin szu-numun szu-du7 | plow with seed, perfect |
| 3 | ki ur-ab-ba-ta | from Ur-abba |
| 4 | nig2-{d}ba-ba6 szu ba-ti | Nig-Baba received. |
| 5 | iti [...] | month , |
| 6 | mu us2-sa [mu us2-sa]-a-bi | year after: “The year after the year after that,’ |
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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