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BPOA 01, 0420 (P339079)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0420 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339079 |
| Museum no. | BM 106697 |
| 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 | 1(u) la2 1(disz) {gi}kid | 9 reed mats, |
| 2 | ki-la2-bi# 2(disz) 2/3(disz) sar# | its weight: 2 2/3 sar |
| 3 | e2-kiszib3-ba zi3 u3 | in the sealed house of flour and flour |
| 4 | e2-kiszib3-ba mun-gazi ba-an-ba#-ra | In the sealed house, the malts were carried away |
| 5 | 8(disz) {gi}murux(|KID.SZU2.MA2|)# ma2-gur8-ra | 8 reed mats for the barge |
| 6 | ki-la2-bi 2(disz) sar | its weight: 2 sar; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ma2-gur8-[...]-a-ke4#? | The barge |
| 2 | 3(disz) la2? gi SZID x du#?-a | 3 less(?) reeds ... ... |
| 3 | gur gesz SZE3 ki#? x x | ... gur ... |
| 4 | ki a-gu-ta | from Agu |
| 5 | kiszib3 lu2-kal-la# | under seal of Lukalla |
| 6 | mu si-ma-num2{ki} ba-hul | year: “Simanum was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-kal-la | Lukalla |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-e11-e szusz3 | son of Ur-e’e, cattle manager |
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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