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BPOA 01, 0956 (P339612)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0956 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339612 |
| Museum no. | BM 107259 |
| 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 | 4(disz) gurusz engar 1(asz) 4(barig) gur-ta | 4 male laborers, plowmen: 1 gur 4 barig each |
| 2 | 1(u) gurusz sza3-gu4 1(asz) gur-ta | 10 male laborers, oxen-drivers, 1 gur each |
| 3 | 1(disz) gurusz sza3-gu4 szu-gi4 4(barig) 2(ban2) | 1 male laborer, oxen herdsman, 4 barig 2 ban2 |
| 4 | ki-su7 gu-la a-sza3 la2-mah-ta | from the Great Kisu, the field Lamah; |
| 5 | ki lu2-{d}szul-gi-ra-ta | from Lu-Šulgi |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | kiszib3 lugal-e2-mah-e | under seal of Lugal-emaḫe; |
| 2 | iti sze-sag11-ku5-ta | from month "Harvest" |
| 3 | iti dal-sze3 | to month "Dal," |
| 4 | mu en eridu{ki} ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Eridu was installed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-e2-mah-e | Lugal-emaḫe, |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu inim-{d}szara2 | son of Inim-Šara, |
| 4 | sa12-du5-ka | of the chief surveyor |
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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