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BPOA 01, 0404 (P339064)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0404 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339064 |
| Museum no. | BM 106680 |
| 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)
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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 | 7(gesz2) 1(u) 1(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 71 workdays, male laborers, |
| 2 | sze gurx(|SZE.KIN|)-a zar3 tab-ba | barley remitted, grain heaped up, |
| 3 | 2(gesz2) 2(u) 2(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 122 workdays, male laborers |
| 4 | a-da gub-ba sa-du8 ak | with the water stationed, the saduŋ service performed |
| 5 | a-sza3 e2-mah u3 | field Emaḫ and |
| 6 | kun-zi-da e2-duru5 {d}amar-{d}suen-ka gub-[ba] | stationed at the reservoir of the village of Amar-Suena |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 [...] | 10 workdays, male laborers |
| 2 | szum2 ba-al-la | given as a gift |
| 3 | 2(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 20 male laborer workdays, |
| 4 | u3-dag-ga sumun-e szu-luh ak | The old udag priestess did the cleansing. |
| 5 | giri3 lugal-e2-mah-e | via Lugal-emaḫe; |
| 6 | ugula lugal-ku3-ga-ni | foreman: Lugal-kugani; |
| 7 | kiszib3 lu2-dingir-ra | under seal of Lu-dingira |
| 8 | mu bad3 mar-tu ba-du3 | year: “The Amorite wall was erected. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-dingir-ra | Lu-dingira |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{d}ba-ba6 | son of Ur-Baba, |
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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