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BPOA 01, 0427 (P339086)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0427 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339086 |
| Museum no. | BM 106704 |
| 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)
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) 2(disz) gurusz u4 3(disz)-sze3 | 12 male laborers for 3 days |
| 2 | kar-ra umma{ki}-ta | from the port of Umma |
| 3 | i7 lugal-sze3 ma2 gid2-da ma2 diri-ga | to the royal canal barge punted, barge floated, |
| 4 | u4 2(disz)-sze3 sze ma2-a si-ga | for 2 workdays barley loaded into a barge |
| 5 | u4 3(disz)-sze3 i7 lugal-ta | for 3 days from the King's Canal |
| 6 | nag-su{ki}-sze3 | to Nagsu |
| 7 | ma2 gid2-da | barge punted |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u4 1(disz)-sze3 nag-su{ki}-a | for 1 workday in Nagsu |
| 2 | ma2 bala ak | boat bala performed; |
| 3 | u3 ma2 diri-ga | and the extra barge |
| 4 | u4 4(disz)-sze3 ma2 ba#-al-la sze bala-a im ur3-ra | for 4 workdays barge unloaded, barley transferred, clay poured |
| 5 | ugula lil-la | foreman: Lila; |
| 6 | kiszib3 lugal-uszurx(|LAL2.TUG2|)? | under seal of Lugal-ušur |
| 7 | mu ma2 {d}en-ki ba-ab-du8 | year: “The boat of Enki was caulked. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-uszur3? | Lugal-ušur(?) |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu a2-an-du-ru | son of A’anduru, |
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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