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BECPL 5 (P464912)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BECPL 5 |
|---|---|
| ID | P464912 |
| Museum no. | BECPL 5 |
| Collection | Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, New York, 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(u) gurusz u4 2(u)-kam? | 10 male laborers, 20th day; |
| 2 | si2-in-nam{ki}-sze3 | to Sinnam |
| 3 | ma2 gid2-da ma2 si-ga | barge punted, barge unloaded |
| 4 | u4 5(disz)-sze3 ma2 ba-al-la | for 5 workdays barge unloaded |
| 5 | lugal-ra us2-sa | to the king follow |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ugula lu2-giri17-zal | foreman: Lu-girizal, |
| 2 | kiszib3 a-du dumu lu2-ga | under seal of Adu, son of Luga |
| 3 | mu en-mah-gal ba-hun | year: "Enmaḫgal was installed." |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | a-du | until |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu lu2-ga | son of Luga |
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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