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BPOA 01, 0559 (P339215)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0559 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339215 |
| Museum no. | BM 106837 |
| 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(disz) gurusz u4 5(u)-sze3 | 1 male laborer for 50 days |
| 2 | sze-sag11-ku5 gub-ba | barley cut, stationed, |
| 3 | 7(disz) ug3-IL2 4(ban2) | 7 porters, 4 ban2 |
| 4 | u4 3(u) 2(disz)-sze3 | for 32 days |
| 5 | a-e3-a na-ra-am-{d}suen gub-ba | at the waterway Naram-Sîn stationed, |
| 6 | u3 u2 na-ga-ab-tum ga2-ra | I want to bring you the nagabbtu-plant. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 2(disz) gurusz | 2 male laborers |
| 2 | 6(disz) ug3-IL2 4(ban2) | 6 porters, 4 ban2 |
| 3 | u4 4(disz)-sze3 ka i7-da e2-ansze-ka [...] | For 4 days, at the mouth of the river, in the Eanše |
| 4 | ugula ARAD2 | foreman: ARAD; |
| 5 | kiszib3 lu2-{d}szara2 | under seal of Lu-Šara; |
| 6 | mu ma2 {d}en-ki ba-ab-du8 | year: “The boat of Enki was caulked. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-[{d}szara2] | Lu-Šara |
| 2 | dub-[sar] | scribe |
| 3 | [dumu ...] | son 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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