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BPOA 01, 0604 (P339260)

Letter, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE

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Designation	BPOA 01, 0604
ID	P339260
Museum no.	BM 106882
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	gu-du-du-ra#	Gududu
2	u3-na-a-du11	he said to him
3	1(asz) 3(barig) sze gur	1 gur 3 barig barley,
4	szesz-a-ni	his brother
5	dumu nam-tur	son of Namtur
6	ha-mu-na#-ab-szum2-mu	may he give to him.
reverse
1	ti-e2-mah-ta	from Tiemaḫ
2	he2-na-ab-szum2-mu	may he give to him.
3	mu en eridu{ki}	year: “The en-priestess of Eridu,
seal 1
1	lu2-e2-mah-e	Lu-emaḫe
2	dub-[sar]	scribe
3	dumu ur-{d}li9-si4-na	son of Ur-Lisina,
4	ensi2 umma{ki}-ka	governor of Umma

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