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BPOA 02, 1988 (P340641)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 02, 1988 |
|---|---|
| ID | P340641 |
| Museum no. | BM 111449 |
| 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(disz) gurusz sza3-gu4 | 5 male laborers, oxen drivers, |
| 2 | 1(disz) gurusz tu-ra | 1 male worker, sick, |
| 3 | e2 gir4-ta | from the Ĝir house |
| 4 | ga2-nun-sze3 gi ga6-ga2 | to the Ganun reed carried, |
| 5 | [...] gurusz# 1(disz) tu-ra | ... male laborers, 1 turra |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | e2-masz2 gub-ba | in the sheepfold stationed, |
| 2 | gurum2 u4 2(u)-kam | inspections, 20th day; |
| 3 | ugula szesz-kal-la | foreman: Šeškalla |
| 4 | iti diri | extra month |
| 5 | mu {d}amar-{d}suen lugal-e ur-[bi2-lum]{ki} mu-hul | year: “Amar-Suen, the king, Urbilum destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | a-kal-la | Akalla |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-nigar{gar} szusz3 | son of Ur-nigar, cattle manager |
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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