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BPOA 01, 1094 (P339749)
Letter, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 1094 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339749 |
| Museum no. | BM 107424 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| 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 | a-a-kal-la | Ayakalla |
| 2 | u3-na-a-du11 | he said to him |
| 3 | 1/2(disz) ur-gesz | 1/2 workman: Ur-geš. |
| 4 | 1/2(disz) ma-an-ba | 1/2 manba, |
| 5 | mu la2-ia3 nam na-ka-[...] | year: “The deficit, the fate of |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | su-su-da-sze3 | to Susu |
| 2 | szu bar-ra | to be released |
| 3 | inim ensi2-ta | by the command of the governor |
| 4 | ur-{d}nun-gal maszkim | Ur-Nungal was enforcer; |
| 5 | iti sig4-{gesz}i3-szub-ba-gar | month: “Bricks cast in moulds,’ |
| 6 | mu us2-sa si-ma-num2{ki} ba-hul | year after: “Simanum was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}nun-gal | Ur-Nungal, |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{d}szara2 | son of Ur-Šara, |
| 4 | sza13-dub-ba-ka | of the chief accountant |
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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