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BPOA 01, 0839 (P339495)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0839 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339495 |
| Museum no. | BM 107128 |
| 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) 8(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 18 male laborer workdays, |
| 2 | ki-su7 {gesz}asalx(|A.TU|)-du3-ta | from the site of the threshing floor |
| 3 | i7 sal4-la-asz | to the Sallaš canal |
| 4 | sze ma2-a si-ga | barley loaded into a barge |
| 5 | u3 guru7-a im ur3-ra | and the silo where clay was heaped up, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ugula ab-ba-gi-na | foreman: Abbagina |
| 2 | kiszib3 ukken-ne2 | sealed documents of the assembly |
| 3 | mu en ga-esz{ki} ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Ga’eš was installed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ukken-ne2 | of the assembly |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{gesz}gigir | son of Ur-gigir, |
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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