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BPOA 02, 2259 (P340913)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 02, 2259 |
|---|---|
| ID | P340913 |
| Museum no. | BM 112005 |
| 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 | 5(asz) zi3-gu du gur lugal | 5 gur regular flour, royal (measure) |
| 2 | zi3 ninda szu-nir-ra | flour and bread for the šunir ritual |
| 3 | 3(asz) 4(barig) gur | 3 gur 4 barig |
| 4 | kiszib3 lu2-{d}szara2 | under seal of Lu-Šara; |
| 5 | 2(barig) kiszib3 ku3-ga-ni | 2 barig, under seal of Kugani |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | bi2-gu7-bi | which he had eaten |
| 2 | 5(ban2) 1(disz) sila3 | 5 ban2 1 sila3 |
| 3 | ki lugal-he2-gal2-ta | from Lugal-hegal |
| 4 | kiszib3 lu2-dingir-ra | under seal of Lu-dingira |
| 5 | sza3 bala-a | in the bala |
| 6 | mu us2-sa si-mu-ru-um | year following: "Simurrum." |
| 7 | lu-lu-bu | |
| 8 | a-ra2 1(u) la2 1(disz)-kam-asz ba-hul | for the 9th time were destroyed; |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu2-dingir-ra | Lu-dingira |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu ur-{d}ba-ba6 | son of Ur-Baba, |
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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