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BPOA 02, 2059 (P340712)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 02, 2059 |
|---|---|
| ID | P340712 |
| Museum no. | BM 111799 |
| 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 ugula ur-{gesz}gigir | 1 male laborer, foreman: Ur-gigir |
| 2 | 2(disz) gurusz ugula lugal-e2-mah-e | 2 male laborers, foreman: Lugal-emaḫe |
| 3 | 2(disz) gurusz ugula lugal-nesag-e | 2 male laborers, foreman: Lugal-nesage |
| 4 | 4(disz) gurusz ugula i7-pa-e3 | 4 male laborers, foreman: Ipa'e; |
| 5 | 1(disz) gurusz ugula ur-{gesz}gigir szabra | 1 male laborer, foreman: Ur-gigir, chief household manager; |
| 6 | 3(disz) gurusz ugula lugal-ku3-zu | 3 male laborers, foreman: Lugal-kuzu |
| 7 | 1(disz) gurusz ugula ur-{d}en-lil2-la2 | 1 male laborer, foreman: Ur-Enlila |
| 8 | 3(disz) gurusz ugula [da]-du-mu | 3 male laborers, foreman: Dadumu |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | gurum2 ak u4 [...]-kam | inspections performed on the ... day |
| 2 | sza3 bala-a a-sza3 {d}nin-ur4-ra | in the bala of the field Ninura, |
| 3 | giri3 lugal-e2-mah-e | via Lugal-emaḫe; |
| 4 | iti {d}dumu-zi | month: “Dumuzi,’ |
| 5 | mu sza-asz-ru-um{ki} ba-hul | year: “Šašrum was destroyed. |
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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