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BPOA 01, 1552 (P340207)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 1552 |
|---|---|
| ID | P340207 |
| Museum no. | BM 107925 |
| 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 | 1(u) gurusz | 10 male laborers |
| 2 | u4 5(disz)-sze3 | for 5 days |
| 3 | ka-ma-ri2{ki}-ta | from Kamari |
| 4 | sze zi-ga | barley rations |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | iti pa4-u2-e | month: “Pa’ue, |
| 2 | mu an-sza-an{ki} ba-hul | year: “Anšan was destroyed. |
| 3 | tir puzur4-[...] | the Puzur-woods |
| 4 | tir da-ur4-ra | the Da'ura-woods |
| 5 | tir pa4-li-ir-dam-ka | the Palirdam-woods |
| 6 | tir szu-na-mu-gi4 | the Šunamugi forest |
| 7 | tir da-gu-na | the Daguna forest |
| 8 | tir gu2 i7 nam-ha-ni gu2-da 2(disz)-a-bi | the bank of the Namḫani-river, its two banks |
| 9 | tir igi {d}en-ki | the forest before Enki |
| left | ||
| 1 | GAN2 lu2-{d}szara2 dumu ka-ka | field of Lu-Šara, son of Kaka |
| 2 | tir masz-kan2{ki} | the Maškan forest |
| 3 | mu 4(disz) lu2 tir [...] | 4 years, forester ...; |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}li9-si4 | Ur-Lisi, |
| 2 | ensi2 umma{ki} | governor of Umma |
| 3 | ur-{d}nin-tu dub-sar | Ur-Nintu, the scribe |
| 4 | dumu du11-ga ARAD2-zu | son of Duga, is your servant. |
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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