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BPOA 01, 1171 (P339826)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 1171 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339826 |
| Museum no. | BM 107503 |
| 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 | 5(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 5 male laborer workdays, |
| 2 | ma2 ib2-gid2 | barge punted |
| 3 | 3(disz) gurusz u4 2(disz)-sze3 | 3 male laborers for 2 days |
| 4 | kar-ra-sze3 bala-a | to the quay bala; |
| 5 | 4(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 | 4 male laborers for 1 day |
| 6 | umma{ki}-sze3 bala-a | to Umma in bala; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 5(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 zi3 ga6-ga2 | 5 workdays, male laborers, flour carried, |
| 2 | 5(disz) gurusz u4 2(disz)-sze3 ar-za-na ib2!-us2!(DU) | 5 male laborers for 2 workdays, Arzana worked |
| 3 | ugula ur-{d}ur3-bar-tab | foreman: Ur-Urbartab; |
| 4 | iti szu-numun | month: “Sowing,’ |
| 5 | mu an-sza-an<{ki}> ba-hul | year: “Anšan was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | a-kal-la | Akalla |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-nigar{gar} szusz3 | son of Ur-nigar, cattle manager |
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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