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BPOA 07, 2490 (P390960)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 07, 2490 |
|---|---|
| ID | P390960 |
| Museum no. | YBC 15912 |
| 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 | [...] gu2 4(disz) ma-na [...] | ... 4 talents |
| 2 | 1(u) 5(disz) ma-na-ta | 15 minas each |
| 3 | ku3-bi 4(disz) gin2 igi-4(disz)-gal2 3(disz) sze | its silver: 4 1/4 shekels 3 grains; |
| 4 | 5(u) 3(disz) ma-na {gesz}za-ba-lum | 53 minas of cypress |
| 5 | 3(u) ma-na-ta | 30 minas each |
| 6 | ku3-bi 1(disz) gin2 2/3(disz) 1(u) 8(disz) sze | its silver: 1 2/3 shekels 18 grains; |
| 7 | 1(asz) gu2 3(u) ma-na |SZIMxKUSZU2| | 1 talent 30 minas of cypress |
| 8 | 4(disz) ma-na-ta | 4 mana each, |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ku3-bi 1/3(disz){sza} 2(disz) 1/2(disz) gin2 | its silver: 1/3 (mana) 2 1/2 shekels; |
| 2 | 5(disz) {gesz}ur-lum 1(disz) gin2-ta | 5 dates, 1 shekel each, |
| 3 | ku3-bi 5(disz) gin2 | its silver: 5 shekels; |
| 4 | nig2-sa10-ma-sze3 bur-ma-ma dam-gar3 | for buying, Bur-Mama, the merchant, |
| 5 | mu-kux(DU) | delivery; |
| 6 | [ku3]-bi e2-gal-ta | its silver from the palace |
| 7 | [ba]-na-la2 | he weighed out. |
| 8 | [...]-szim-bi {d}utu-GIR2@g-gal | ... its aromatics, Utu-GIRgal |
| 9 | [szu ba]-ti | received |
| 10 | [...] | |
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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