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BPOA 01, 0592 (P339248)
Letter, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0592 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339248 |
| Museum no. | BM 106870 |
| 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 | lu2-{d}szul-gi-ra | for Lu-Šulgi |
| 2 | u3-na-a-du11 | he said to him |
| 3 | tukum-bi | If |
| 4 | 2(u) 2(asz) sze gur | 22 gur of barley, |
| 5 | e2-gal-e-si uri5{ki}-sze3 | to Egalesi of Ur, |
| 6 | sza3-bi in-ne-silim | he filled its insides. |
| 7 | lu2 hu-ba-a u3 ad-<kup4> | a man of the ḫubāya and the ad-kup |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | uri5{ki}-sze3 | to Ur |
| 2 | tur-am3-i3-li2 u3-gi4 | Turam-ilī, the fugitive, |
| 3 | he2-ne-eb2-szum2-mu | they shall give to him. |
| 4 | tukum-bi | If |
| 5 | 2(u) 2(asz) sze gur nu-ne-szum2 | 22 gur barley he did not give, |
| 6 | lu2 hu-ba-a u3 ad-kup4 | a man of ḫubūba and adkup |
| 7 | kiszib3 in-da-gal2-la | under seal of Indagala |
| 8 | ka-ma-ri2{ki}-ta | from Kamari |
| 9 | sza3-bi he2-eb-sa2-e | may he satisfy its heart. |
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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