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BPOA 01, 0594 (P339250)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0594 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339250 |
| Museum no. | BM 106872 |
| 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 | 1(u) la2 1(disz) gurusz u4 2(disz)-sze3 | 9 male laborer workdays, |
| 2 | en-du8-du-ta | from Endudu |
| 3 | gu2 idigna-sze3 gi ga6-ga2 | to the bank of the Tigris reed carried, |
| 4 | 1(u) la2 1(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 9 male laborer workdays, |
| 5 | ma2 gi gid2-da | barge with long reeds |
| 6 | ka i7 gurusz-gin7-<du>-sze3 | to the mouth of the canal like a young man |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(u) la2 1(disz) gurusz u4 3(disz)-sze3 | 9 male laborer workdays, |
| 2 | sahar zi-ga | piled up dust |
| 3 | ka i7 gurusz-gin7-du | from the mouth of the canal Gurušgindu |
| 4 | ugula i7-pa-e3 | foreman: Ipa'e; |
| 5 | kiszib3 kas4 | under seal of Kas; |
| 6 | mu bad3 mar-tu ba-du3 | year: “The Amorite wall was erected. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | en-kas4 | Enkas |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{d}isztaran | son of Ur-Ištaran, |
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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