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BPOA 01, 0448 (P339106)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0448 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339106 |
| Museum no. | BM 106725 |
| 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(esze3)? GAN2 gesz a-[ra2 n-kam] | 1 eše3 field area, trees for n times |
| 2 | ur-{d}suen [engar] | Ur-Suen, the ploughman |
| 3 | 6(disz) gurusz {u2}|ZI&ZI|-sze3 sze [...] | 6 male laborers for ... barley |
| 4 | a-sza3 us2-sa igi-[zi] | field adjoining the road |
| 5 | 3(ban2) 5(disz) sila3 sze-numun | 3 ban2 5 sila3 seed barley |
| 6 | lu2-{d}szara2 engar | Lu-Šara, the plowman; |
| 7 | 3(disz) gurusz al 5(disz) sar-ta | 3 male laborers, hoed at 5 sar (per day), |
| 8 | 2(bur3) GAN2 gesz a-ra2 1(disz)-kam | 2 bur3 field area, trees, 1st time, |
| 9 | lugal-nir-gal2 engar | Lugal-nirgal, the plowman; |
| 10 | 1(esze3)? GAN2 gesz a-ra2 1(disz)-kam | 1 eše3 field area, trees, for the 1st time |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ur-e2-an-na engar | Ur-Eanna, the plowman; |
| 2 | a-sza3 muru13 | field muru; |
| 3 | gurum2 ak u4 1(u) 8(disz)-kam | inspections performed, 18th day, |
| 4 | ugula ur-mes | foreman: Ur-mes; |
| 5 | iti szu-numun | month: “Sowing,’ |
| 6 | mu hu-hu-nu-ri[{ki} ba-hul] | year: “Ḫuḫunuri was destroyed. |
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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