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BPOA 01, 0786 (P339442)
Legal, Ur III, Girsu · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0786 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339442 |
| Museum no. | BM 107073 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| Find spot | Girsu (mod. Tello) |
| Coordinates | 31.5591, 46.1776 |
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(disz) KWU896-kal | 1 ‘cowherd’ |
| 2 | 1(disz) lugal-sza3-la2 | 1 Lugal-šala, |
| 3 | 1(disz) sza3-ki-bi | 1 Ša-kibi, |
| 4 | 1(disz) a2-dingir-ga2 | 1: A-dingirga, |
| 5 | e2 {d}nanna | the temple of Nanna |
| 6 | ki ur-{d}ba-ba6 | from Ur-Baba |
| 7 | 1(disz) i-KU-bi2-szu | 1 I-KU-bišu, |
| 8 | 1(disz) s,i-{d}iszkur | 1 Ṣi-Adad |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(disz) a-tu | 1 Atu, |
| 2 | 1(disz) ma-an-szum2 | 1: Manšum; |
| 3 | 1(disz) lu2-sag-ub3{ki} | 1 Lu-sag-ub, |
| 4 | ARAD2 {d}nin-lil2-le-ma-ag2-me | servant of Ninlil-le’agme. |
| 5 | ugula nig2-si-sa2-e | foreman: Nigsisa |
| 6 | a-hu-a sa-gaz-mu ba-ak bi2-du11 | He killed my brother, he did it wrong. |
| 7 | sa-gaz-ak-asz la-ba-gi-in | he did not return it to its place. |
| 8 | iti 1(disz) u4 5(disz)-am3 en-nun-ga2-sze3 ba-a-dab5 | for 1 month and 5 days the guard was seized; |
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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