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BPOA 02, 2240 (P340893)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 02, 2240 |
|---|---|
| ID | P340893 |
| Museum no. | BM 111985 |
| 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(u) 1(disz) gurusz u4 7(disz)-sze3 | 11 male laborers for 7 days |
| 2 | e i7 amar-{d}suen ga2-ra szu ur3-ra | The house, the canal of Amar-Suena, is to be irrigated. |
| 3 | 1(u) gurusz u4 2(disz)-sze3 | 10 male laborer workdays, |
| 4 | kun i7-da gub-ba | stationed at the bank of the river |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ugula lu2-bala-saga | foreman: Lu-bala-saga; |
| 2 | kiszib3 gu-u2-gu-a | under seal of Gugua |
| 3 | mu szu-{d}suen lugal | year: “Šū-Suen is king.{d} |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | gu-u2-gu-a | Gugua, |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ma-an-szum2 | son of Manšum |
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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