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BPOA 01, 0547 (P339204)
Letter, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0547 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339204 |
| Museum no. | BM 106825 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| 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 | ARAD2-ra | a servant |
| 2 | u3-na#-[a]-du11# | said to him |
| 3 | [...] | |
| 4 | [...] | |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 3(ban2) sze lugal | 3 ban2 barley, royal (measure), |
| 2 | ur-sila-luh du3-a-ku5 | Ur-silaluḫ was cut off. |
| 3 | ki lugal-nesag-e-ta | from Lugal-nesage |
| 4 | iti {d}li9-si4 dah-he-dam | month: “Lisi is to be removed, |
| 5 | <mu> en {d}nanna masz-e i3-pa3 | the year (in which) the en-priestess of Nanna by goat was chosen |
| seal 1 col 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}szul-gi | Šulgi |
| 2 | nita kal-ga | the strong man |
| 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 | ur-{d}li9#-[si4] | Ur-Lisi |
| 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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