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BPOA 01, 1587 (P340242)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 1587 |
|---|---|
| ID | P340242 |
| Museum no. | BM 111512 |
| 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 | 1(disz) gurusz | 1 male worker, |
| 2 | iti nesag-ta | from month "nesag offering" |
| 3 | iti {d}pa4-u2-e-sze3 | to month “Pa’ue,' |
| 4 | iti-bi iti 8(disz)-am3 | its months: 8, |
| 5 | igi-sa6-sa6-mu | Igisasamu |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | guru7-da tusz-a | sitting in the silo |
| 2 | sza3 uri5{ki}-ma | in Ur |
| 3 | kiszib3 la-ni muhaldim | under seal of Lani, the cook; |
| 4 | mu us2-sa an-sza-an{ki} ba-hul mu us2-sa-bi | year after: “Anšan was destroyed, the year after that. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | la-ni# | Lāni |
| 2 | dub-sar# | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-nigar[{gar}] | son of Ur-nigar |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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