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BPOA 01, 0600 (P339256)
Legal, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0600 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339256 |
| Museum no. | BM 106878 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| 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) musz-ki-num2 szar2-ra-ab-du a-sza3-ga | 1 Muškinum, the šarabdu of the field |
| 2 | 1(disz) gu-du-bi | 1 Gudubi, |
| 3 | 1(disz) an-ne2-ba-ab-du7 | 1 Ane-babdu, |
| 4 | 1(disz) nam-ha-ni | 1 Namhani, |
| 5 | 1(disz) a-NE-GAN2 | 1 A-NE-GAN2 |
| 6 | kab2-ku5 muru13-ka-kam | It is the kabkû-vessel of the muru-tree. |
| 7 | ku5-da bi2-in-esz-a-na-na | when he had cut off the fish, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | kab2-ku5 {gesz}asalx(|A.TU.NIR|) | a wooden container for a date palm |
| 2 | u3 eme sig-ga-ka | and the lower tongue |
| 3 | nu-bi2-in-esz-a | did not raise up, |
| 4 | ur-{gesz}gigir-ra | Ur-gigira |
| 5 | nam-erim2-bi ku5-dam | its evil is to be cut off |
| 6 | igi# ensi2-ka-sze3 | before the governor |
| 7 | igi a-mu-a-sze3 | before Amua |
| 8 | igi lu2-dingir-ra dumu lugal-ba-ta-ab-e3-sze3 | before Lu-dingira, son of Lugal-batabe |
| 9 | igi da-ad-da-mu-sze3 | before Dadamu |
| 10 | igi i3-da-mu-sze3 | before Idamu |
| left | ||
| 1 | iti sze-sag11-ku5 | month "Harvest," |
| 2 | mu us2-sa en {d}nanna ba-hun | year following: “The en-priestess of Nanna was installed. |
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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