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BPOA 01, 0621 (P339277)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0621 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339277 |
| Museum no. | BM 106900 |
| 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)
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(u) 2(disz) gurusz u4 2(disz)-sze3 | 12 male laborers for 2 days |
| 2 | umma{ki}-ta gu2-edin-na-sze3 ma2 gid2-da ma2 diri-ga | from Umma to Gu-edina barge punted, barge floated |
| 3 | u4 3(disz)-sze3 ki-su7 gu2-edin-na-ta sze ma2-a si-ga | for 3 workdays from the “kisu of the Gu’edena barley loaded into the barge, |
| 4 | u4 3(disz)-sze3 gu2-edin-na-ta | for 3 days from Gu-edina, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | umma{ki}-sze3 ma2 | to Umma barge |
| 2 | gid2-da u3 ma2 bala ak | lengthened and barge bala done; |
| 3 | u4 3(disz)-sze3 e2-kikken-sze3 | for 3 days to the mill, |
| 4 | [sze] ga6-ga2 sze bala-a | barley carried, barley transferred |
| 5 | ugula a-gu | foreman: Agu |
| 6 | kiszib3 nam-sza3-tam ur-{d}szara2 | under seal of the office of administrator of Ur-Šara; |
| 7 | mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal | year: “Šū-Suen is king.{d} |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}szara2 | Ur-Šara |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu szesz-kal-[la] | son of Šeškalla |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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