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BPOA 01, 0508 (P339166)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0508 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339166 |
| Museum no. | BM 106786 |
| 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)
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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(asz) sze-ba [...] | 8 gur of barley |
| 2 | 2(asz) 4(barig) sze-ba gur lugal#? [...] | 2 gur 4 barig barley rations, royal(?) |
| 3 | 2(barig) a-ab-ba-mu | 2 barig A’abbamu |
| 4 | 2(barig) lugal-me-a | 2 barig Lugalmea |
| 5 | 2(barig) ur#-{gesz}gigir | 2 barig, Ur-gigir |
| 6 | 1(asz) 2(barig) sze#-ba# lu2 azlag2#? | 1 (gur) 2 barig barley rations for the fuller |
| 7 | 1(barig) puzur4-i3-szar | 60 litres (of barley for) Puzur-išar |
| 8 | 1(barig) ARAD2-{d}szara2 | 60 litres (of barley for) Warad-Šara |
| 9 | 1(barig) szesz-kal-la kikken2 | 1 barig, Šeškalla, miller, |
| 10 | 1(barig) ur-{d}gesztin-an-ka ma2-lah5 | 60 litres (of barley) 1 unit (for) Ur-Geštinanka the boatman |
| 11 | 1(barig) ur-{gesz}gigir | 60 litres (of barley for) Ur-gigir |
| 12 | 1(asz) 3(barig) sze-ba ma2-lah5 | 1 (gur) 3 barig barley for the boatman |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | szunigin 1(u) 6(asz) sze gur | total: 16 gur barley |
| 2 | iti e2-iti-[6(disz)] | month: “House-of-Tishri’s |
| 3 | ka i7 [...] | from the mouth of the ... canal |
| 4 | mu en [...] | year: “The en-priestess of |
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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