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BPOA 01, 0779 (P339435)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0779 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339435 |
| Museum no. | BM 107065 |
| 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(gesz2) 4(u) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 240 workdays, male laborers, |
| 2 | kun-zi-da i7 idigna gub-ba | stationed at the reservoir of the Tigris, |
| 3 | 8(disz) 1/2(disz) sar sahar gurusz-e 7(disz) 1/2(disz) gin2-ta | 8 1/2 sar of dust, the workman at 7 1/2 shekels (per day) |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | bar-la2 sza3 tir i7 a-pi4-sal4{ki} ba-al | outside, in the forest of the Apisal canal irrigated; |
| 2 | nu-banda3-gu4 i7-pa-e3 | oxen manager: Ipa’e; |
| 3 | kiszib3 al-la-palil2 | under seal of Alla-palil |
| 4 | mu na-ru2-a-mah ba-du3 | year: “Great-Stele was erected. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | al-la-palil2 | Alla-palil |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-a-a-mu | son of Ur-ayamu, |
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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