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BPOA 01, 0440 (P339098)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0440 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339098 |
| Museum no. | BM 106717 |
| 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) 8(disz)#? gurusz | 18(?) male laborers |
| 2 | u4 3(disz)-sze3 ka-ma-ri2{ki}-ta | for 3 days from Kamari |
| 3 | e2 {d}nin-mar{ki}-sze3 gir2-a gen-na | to the house of Ninmar I went on foot. |
| 4 | 2(u) gurusz u4 2(u) 1(disz)-sze3 | 20 male laborers for 21 days |
| 5 | e2 {d}nin-mar{ki}-ka-ta | from the temple of Ninmar |
| 6 | uri5{ki}-sze3 umma{ki}-sze3 ma2 su3 im-gid2# | to Ur and Umma barge punted |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | giri3 szesz-kal-la# | via Šeszkalla |
| 2 | a-ra2 2(disz)-kam | 2nd time |
| 3 | ugula lu2-{d}szara2 | foreman: Lu-Šara; |
| 4 | iti sig4-{gesz}i3-szub {ga2}gar#-ra# | month: “Bricks cast in moulds, for the granary |
| 5 | mu us2-sa an-sza-an{ki} ba-hul | year after: “Anšan was destroyed. |
| seal 1 col 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}li9-si4 | Ur-Lisi, |
| 2 | ensi2 | governor |
| 3 | umma{ki} | of Umma |
| 4 | szesz-kal-la | Šeškalla |
| seal 1 col 2 | ||
| 1 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 2 | dumu na-silim | son of Nasilim, |
| 3 | ARAD2-zu | your servant. |
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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