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BPOA 01, 0603 (P339259)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0603 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339259 |
| Museum no. | BM 106881 |
| 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(gesz2) 5(u) 2(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 102 workdays, male laborers, |
| 2 | i7 i7 sal4-la{ki} szu ur3-ra | the Salla canal, irrigated |
| 3 | 1(gesz2) 3(u) 1(disz)? gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 91(?) workdays, male laborers |
| 4 | kab2-ku5 i7 kun-nagar gub-ba | stationed at the reservoir of the Kunnagar canal, |
| 5 | 3(u) 5(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 35 workdays, male laborers |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ka i7 {d}amar-{d}suen-ke4-gar gub-ba | at the mouth of the Amar-Suena canal stationed, |
| 2 | 2(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 20 male laborer workdays, |
| 3 | kun i7-da gub-ba | stationed at the bank of the river |
| 4 | ugula# ab-ba-saga | foreman: Abbasaga |
| 5 | kiszib3# {d}szara2-he2-gal2 | under seal of Šara-ḫegal |
| 6 | mu us2-sa bad3 | year following: "The wall." |
| 7 | mar-tu ba-du3 | Amurru was built. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}szara2-he2-gal2 | Šara-hegal, |
| 2 | dub-[sar] | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-[mes] | son of Ur-mes |
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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