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BPOA 01, 1787 (P340442)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 01, 1787 |
|---|---|
| ID | P340442 |
| Museum no. | BM 111762 |
| 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(gesz'u) 4(gesz2) sa gi NE | 10 (sixties) reed bundles |
| 2 | gu-nigin2-ba 5(disz) sa-ta | total: 5 bundles each |
| 3 | sza3-gal udu niga-sze3 | fodder for grain-fed sheep |
| 4 | a-sza3 na-ra-<am>-{d}suen-ta | from the field Narām-Suen |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a-pi4-sal4{ki}-sze3 ma2-a ga2-ra | to Apisal barge loaded, |
| 2 | giri3 lu2-{d}szara2 | via Lu-Šara; |
| 3 | kiszib3 ur-{d}szul-pa-e3 | under seal of Ur-Šulpa’e |
| 4 | iti nesag | month: “nesag festival,{š} |
| 5 | mu us2-sa ma2 {d}en-ki ba-ab-du8 | year following: “The boat of Enki was caulked. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}szul-pa-e3 | Ur-Šulpa'e, |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-sa6-ga | son of Ur-saga, |
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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