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BPOA 01, 0639 (P339295)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0639 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339295 |
| Museum no. | BM 106919 |
| 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(u) 5(disz) gurusz u4 6(disz)-[sze3] | 15 male laborers for 6 days |
| 2 | [{u2}]|ZI&ZI|-sze3#? zex(SIG7)-a | swollen plant |
| 3 | tir e2 lugal-ka-ta | from the forest of the royal house |
| 4 | gu2 i7 {d}amar-{d}suen-ke4-ga2-ra-sze3 ga6-ga2 | to the bank of the Amar-Suen canal carried; |
| 5 | 1(u) 8(disz) gurusz u4 5(disz)-sze3 | 18 male laborer workdays, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | kab2-ku5 i3-szum2-ma-ta sahar szu ti-a | After he had given the kabkû-vessel, he received the earth. |
| 2 | 1(u) 6(disz) 1/2(disz) gurusz u4 4(disz)-sze3 | 16 1/2 male laborer workdays, |
| 3 | kab2-ku5 i7 sal4-la-ta sahar szu ti-a | From the reservoir of the Salla canal, the dust has been poured. |
| 4 | ugula lil-la | foreman: Lila; |
| 5 | kiszib3 {d}szara2-he2-gal2 | under seal of Šara-ḫegal |
| 6 | mu ma2 {d}en-ki ba-ab-du8# | year: “The boat of Enki was caulked. |
| 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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