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BPOA 02, 1865 (P340516)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 02, 1865 |
|---|---|
| ID | P340516 |
| Museum no. | BM 107042 |
| 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(disz) udu 1(disz) sila4 | 1 sheep, 1 lamb |
| 2 | zabala3{ki}-sze3 | to Zabalam |
| 3 | 2(disz) udu 2(disz) masz2 | 2 sheep, 2 billy goats, |
| 4 | sza3 e2-duru5-sze3 | into the Eduru |
| 5 | 1(disz) masz2 e2 {d}szara2-sze3 | 1 billy goat for the house of Šara |
| 6 | 1(disz) masz2 igi-kar2 a-ba-an-ne-an? lu2 kin-gi4-a | 1 billy goat, inspected by Abanean, the messenger; |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ki a-lu5-lu5-ta | from Alulu |
| 2 | kiszib3 ensi2-ka | under seal of the governor |
| 3 | iti sze-kar-ra-gal2-la | month: “Barley at the granary,’ |
| 4 | mu us2-sa {d}szu-{d}suen lugal | year following: “Šū-Suen is king.{d} |
| seal 1 col 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}szu-{d}suen | Šū-Suen, |
| 2 | lugal kal-ga | mighty king |
| 3 | lugal uri5{ki}-ma | king of Ur |
| 4 | lugal an-ub-da limmu2-ba | king of the four quarters |
| seal 1 col 2 | ||
| 1 | a-a-kal-la | Ayakalla |
| 2 | ensi2 | governor |
| 3 | umma{ki} | of Umma |
| 4 | ARAD2-zu | 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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