Unread Atlas
BPOA 01, 0473 (P339131)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | BPOA 01, 0473 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339131 |
| Museum no. | BM 106750 |
| 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 | 8(disz) gurusz u4 4(disz)-sze3 | 8 male laborers for 4 days |
| 2 | kun-zi-da a-sza3 nun-na gi4-a u3 e sa-dur2-ra | Returning to the kunzida, the princely field, and the sand dunes, |
| 3 | a-da gub-ba | with the water stationed |
| 4 | 1(u) 2(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 12 male laborer workdays, |
| 5 | kab2-ku5 a-u2-da ku5-a | cut off from the Auda canal |
| 6 | 1(u) 1(disz) gurusz u4 5(disz)-sze3 | 11 male laborers for 5 days |
| 7 | a-sza3 da-gi4#-<a>-ta | from the field Dagica |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ga2-nun# [du6-ku3]-sig17-<sze3> | to the storehouse Dukugsig |
| 2 | u2 [il2]-la | a kind of plant |
| 3 | 8(disz)? gurusz# [u4 ...]-sze3 | 8(?) male laborers for ... days |
| 4 | [...] SZUL#? | ... Šulu |
| 5 | [...] | |
| 6 | [...] | |
| 7 | ugula {d}[...] | foreman: |
| 8 | kiszib3 lugal-he2-gal2 | under seal of Lugal-hegal; |
| 9 | mu# ma2 {d}en-ki ba-ab-du8 | year: “The boat of Enki was caulked. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-he2-gal2 | Lugal-hegal |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | [dumu ur-nigar{gar}] | son of Ur-nigar |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.