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BPOA 06, 0249 (P390831)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 0249 |
|---|---|
| ID | P390831 |
| Museum no. | YBC 13837 |
| Collection | Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| 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(ban2) 7(disz) sila3 kasz saga | 1 ban2 7 sila3 fine beer |
| 2 | 4(ban2) kasz du | 4 ban2 regular beer, |
| 3 | u4 7(disz)-kam | 7th day, |
| 4 | 1(ban2) 7(disz) sila3 kasz saga | 1 ban2 7 sila3 fine beer |
| 5 | 4(ban2) 5(disz) sila3 kasz du | 4 ban2 5 sila3 regular beer, |
| 6 | u4 8(disz)-kam | 8th day, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | 1(ban2) kasz saga | 1 ban2 fine beer |
| 2 | 4(ban2) kasz du | 4 ban2 regular beer, |
| 3 | sza3-ga-na-ku-um | Šageganakuum |
| 4 | 1(disz) kasz dida du 2(ban2) | 1 wort-beer, regular quality, 2 ban2 (barley per litre) |
| 5 | ur-{d}ba-ba6 muhaldim | Ur-Baba, the cook; |
| 6 | ki a-al-li2-ta | from Alli |
| 7 | kiszib3 ensi2 | under seal of the governor |
| 8 | iti nesag | month: “nesag festival,{š} |
| 9 | mu us2-sa {d}szu-{d}suen lugal-e bad3 mar-tu ba!-du3 | year following: “Šu-Suen, the king, the Amorite wall erected;’ |
| 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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