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BPOA 01, 0485 (P339143)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0485 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339143 |
| Museum no. | BM 106762 |
| 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 | 6(disz) geme2 u4 5(disz)-sze3 | 6 female laborers for 5 days |
| 2 | ka-ma-ri2{ki}-ta | from Kamari |
| 3 | umma{ki}-sze3 ziz2 zi-ga | to Umma roasted emmer |
| 4 | kun i7-da ma2 bala-a ak | at the bank of the river, barge bala performed; |
| 5 | 5(disz) geme2 u4 3(disz)-sze3 | 5 female laborers for 3 days |
| 6 | a-gesztin-na-ta umma{ki}-sze3 sze zi3-gu zi-ga | from Agaština to Umma barley and flour rations booked out, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ugula ur-{d}suen | foreman: Ur-Suen; |
| 2 | kiszib3 lu2-kal-la | under seal of Lukalla |
| 3 | mu sza-szu2-ru{ki} ba-hul | year: “Šašuru 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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