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BPOA 06, 0308 (P390871)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 0308 |
|---|---|
| ID | P390871 |
| Museum no. | YBC 13951 |
| 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)
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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 | 2(gesz2) 5(u) 7(disz) gurusz hun-ga2 | 197 hirelings, |
| 2 | 8(disz) gurusz sza3-gu4 | 8 male laborers, oxen drivers; |
| 3 | iti szu-numun | month: “Sowing,’ |
| 4 | 1(u) 1(disz) 2/3(disz) gurusz hun-ga2 | 11 2/3 male laborers, hired |
| 5 | 3(u) 5(disz) gurusz sza3-gu4 | 35 male laborers, oxen-drivers |
| 6 | a-sza3 la2-mah gu-la | field Lamaḫ, great |
| 7 | 1(gesz2) 2(u) la2 1(disz) gurusz hun-ga2 | 91 male laborers, hired, |
| 8 | 1(u) gurusz sza3-gu4 | 10 male laborers, oxen drivers |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | iti dal | month: “Flight, |
| 2 | a-sza3-ge kin ak | work on the field |
| 3 | a-sza3 la2-mah u3 a-sza3 du6-sa#? | field Lamaḫ and field Dusa |
| 4 | ugula i7-pa-e3 | foreman: Ipa'e; |
| 5 | kiszib3 ur-am3-ma | under seal of Ur-ama |
| 6 | mu us2-sa si-ma-num2{ki} ba-hul | year after: “Simanum was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-am3-ma | Ur-ama, |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu na-silim | son of Nasilim, |
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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