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BPOA 01, 1165 (P339820)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 1165 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339820 |
| Museum no. | BM 107496 |
| 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 | 3(asz) 2(ban2) esir2 E2-A gur | 3 gur 2 ban2 EA bitumen, |
| 2 | 1(gesz2) 4(u) 1(asz) gu2 esir2 had2 | 81 talents of bitumen, |
| 3 | 1(asz) gu2 esir2 apin | 1 talent, bitumen for the plow; |
| 4 | 1(asz) gu2 u2-nin9 | 1 talent: U-nin |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ki dam-gar3-ne-ta | from the merchants |
| 2 | kiszib3 lugal-e-ba-an-sa6 | under seal of Lugal-ebansa |
| 3 | mu ma2 {d}en-ki ba-ab-du8 | year: “The boat of Enki was caulked. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-e-ba-an-sa6 | Lugal-ebansa |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{d}isztaran | son of Ur-Ištaran, |
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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