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BPOA 01, 0505 (P339163)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0505 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339163 |
| Museum no. | BM 106783 |
| 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 | 4(u) kusz gu4 u2-hab2 | 40 hides of oxen, tanned, |
| 2 | 4(disz) kusz gu4 ge6 | 4 hides of black oxen, |
| 3 | 2(u) 7(disz) 1/2(disz) ma-na sze-gin2 | 27 1/2 minas of barley, |
| 4 | zi-ga {gesz}ig lugal-ka | booked out of the royal door |
| 5 | 2(u) [...] 1(disz) ma-na sze-gin2 <<1(disz)>> zi-ga {gesz}ig-ka | 20 ... 1 mina of shekels of barley, (measured) by the height of the door |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ki a-kal-la-ta | from Akalla |
| 2 | kiszib3 ensi2-ka | under seal of the governor |
| 3 | iti szu-numun | month: “Sowing,’ |
| 4 | mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal | year: “Šū-Suen is king.{d} |
| seal 1 col 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}szu-{d}suen | Šū-Suen, |
| 2 | lugal kal-ga | mighty king |
| 3 | lugal uri5{ki}-ma | king of Ur |
| 4 | lugal an-ub-da limmu2-ba | king of the four quarters |
| seal 1 col 2 | ||
| 1 | a-a-kal-la | Ayakalla |
| 2 | ensi2 | governor |
| 3 | umma{ki} | of Umma |
| 4 | ARAD2-zu | your servant. |
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)
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