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BPOA 01, 0497 (P339155)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0497 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339155 |
| Museum no. | BM 106775 |
| 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) gurusz#? ugula ur#?-[...] | 10 male laborers, foreman: Ur- |
| 2 | 2(disz) ugula lugal-ukken-ne2 | 2, foreman: Lugal-ukkene; |
| 3 | 2(disz) ugula ur-{d}en-lil2-la2 | 2, foreman: Ur-Enlila; |
| 4 | 2(disz) ugula ur-mes | 2 foreman: Ur-mes |
| 5 | 2(disz) ugula lugal-ku3#?-zu#? | 2 foreman: Lugal-kuzu(?) |
| 6 | 2(disz) ugula szesz-kal-la | 2 foreman: Šeškalla |
| 7 | [...] ugula ur-{gesz}gigir | foreman: Ur-gigir |
| 8 | 1(disz) ugula ba-sa6 | 1 foreman: Basa |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 4(disz)#? ugula ab-ba | 4, foreman: Abba |
| 2 | 2(disz) ugula ur-{d}szul-pa-e3 | 2, foreman: Ur-Šulpa’e; |
| 3 | 1(disz) ugula lugal-nesag-e | 1 foreman: Lugal-nesage, |
| 4 | 5(disz)#? ugula a-da-ga | 5, foreman: Adaga |
| 5 | [...] geme2# ugula ur-{d}suen | ... female laborers, foreman: Ur-Suen |
| 6 | 1(u) geme2 ugula {d}szara2-za-me | 10 female laborers, foreman: Šara-zame |
| 7 | 1(u) geme2 ugula lu2-bala-saga | 10 female laborers, foreman: Lu-bala-saga |
| 8 | 1(u) geme2 ugula lugal-e2-mah-e | 10 female laborers, foreman: Lugal-emaḫe |
| 9 | gurum2 ak sze bala u4 7(disz)-kam | inspection of barley bala, 7th day, |
| 10 | mu en eridu{ki} ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Eridu was installed. |
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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