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BPOA 01, 0970 (P339626)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 0970 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339626 |
| Museum no. | BM 107275 |
| 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(u) la2 1(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 49 male laborer workdays, |
| 2 | zar3 tab-ba szu ur3-ra | šār tabba-soapwort spread over the hand, |
| 3 | a-sza3 gu2-edin-na | field Gu-edina, |
| 4 | 1(gesz2) 4(u) 1(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 91 workdays, male laborers, |
| 5 | zar3 tab-ba szu ur3-ra | šār tabba-soapwort spread over the hand, |
| 6 | a-sza3 usz-gid2-da | field Ušgida, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-sza3 du6-{d}szara2 | field Du-Šara, |
| 2 | [...] gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | ... male laborer for 1 day |
| 3 | zar3 tab-ba szu ur3-ra | šār tabba-soapwort spread over the hand, |
| 4 | a-sza3 muru13 | field muru; |
| 5 | gurum2 ak sza3 buru14 | inspections of the harvest |
| 6 | ugula lugal-ezem | foreman: Lugal-ezem; |
| 7 | kiszib3 e2-gal-e-si | under seal of Egal-esi |
| 8 | mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal | year: “Šū-Suen is king.{d} |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | e2-gal-e-si | Egalesi |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu lu2-{d}szara2 | son of Lu-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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