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BPOA 01, 1780 (P340435)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 1780 |
|---|---|
| ID | P340435 |
| Museum no. | BM 111742 |
| 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 | 5(gesz'u) sar {u2}har-an bu3-ra 3(u) sar-ta | 560 sar, ḫaran-plant, cultivated, at 30 (volume-)sar (per day), |
| 2 | a2-bi u4 1(gesz2) 4(u)-kam | its labor: 240 days; |
| 3 | 2(gesz'u) 5(gesz2) sar {u2}kul zex(SIG7)-a 1(u) 5(disz) sar-ta | 170 sar, kukullu-plant, sprouted, at 15 (volume-)sar (a day), |
| 4 | a2-bi u4 1(gesz2) 4(u)-kam | its labor: 240 days; |
| 5 | 3(u) sar al 3(disz) sar-ta | 30 sar of hoeing, at 3 (volume-)sar per (day) |
| 6 | a2-bi u4 1(u)-kam | its labor: 10 days; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a2 lu2 hun-ga2-bi 6(disz) sila3 | labor of hirelings: 6 sila3 |
| 2 | a-sza3 muru13 ugula lugal-nesag-e | field muru, foreman: Lugal-nesage; |
| 3 | kiszib3 a-gu-gu | under seal of Agugu |
| 4 | iti min-esz3 | month: “Mini-eš,’ |
| 5 | mu ha-ar-szi{ki} hu-ur5-ti{ki} u3 ki-masz{ki} ba-hul | year: “Ḫarši, Ḫurti, and Kimash were destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}li9-si4 | Ur-Lisi, |
| 2 | ensi2 umma{ki} | governor of Umma |
| 3 | lugal-ezem dub-sar | Lugal-ezem, the scribe |
| 4 | dumu da-da ARAD2-zu | son of Dada, 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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