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BPOA 01, 0638 (P339294)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0638 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339294 |
| Museum no. | BM 106918 |
| 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 | 4(u) 7(disz) gurusz al 5(disz) sar-ta | 47 male laborers, hoed at 5 sar (per day), |
| 2 | 2(gesz2) 1(u) 2(disz) gurusz al 2(disz) sar-ta | 122 male laborers, hoed at 2 sar (per day), |
| 3 | 1(gesz2) 2(u) 2(disz) gurusz al 3(disz) sar-ta | 122 male laborers, hoed at 3 sar (per day), |
| 4 | <a2> lu2 hun-ga2 6(disz) sila3-ta | <ca> of the hirelings: 6 sila3 each |
| 5 | a-sza3 muru13 | field muru; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ugula lugal-ku3-zu | foreman: Lugal-kuzu; |
| 2 | kiszib3 a-kal-la | under seal of Akalla |
| 3 | mu us2-sa ur-bi2-i3-lum{ki} ba-hul | year after: “Urbilum was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | a-kal-[la] | Akalla |
| 2 | dub-[sar] | scribe |
| 3 | [dumu ...] | son of ... |
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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