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BPOA 01, 1239 (P339894)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 1239 |
|---|---|
| ID | P339894 |
| Museum no. | BM 107579 |
| 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(u) 1(asz) 3(barig) sze kasz ninda gur | 31 gur 3 barig barley, beer and bread, |
| 2 | nig2-ba lugal | royal gift |
| 3 | 8(asz) 2(barig) sze gur | 8 gur 2 barig barley, |
| 4 | kiszib3 usz-mu | under seal of Ušmu |
| 5 | 1(asz) sze mu ziz2-sze3 gur | 1 gur of barley, for emmer, |
| 6 | kiszib3 ba-a-mu | under seal of Bāmu, |
| 7 | 3(barig) sza3-gal udu | 3 barig fodder for sheep |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | kiszib3 ad-da | under seal of Adda; |
| 2 | guru7-ta e3-a | coming out from the silo |
| 3 | e2-kikken-gibil-ta | from the millhouse |
| 4 | iti sig4-{gesz}i3-szub-ba-gar | month: “Bricks cast in moulds,’ |
| 5 | mu en eridu{ki} ba-hun | year: “The en-priestess of Eridu was installed. |
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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