BPOA 01, 1748 (P340403)

Administrative tablet excavated in Umma (mod. Tell Jokha), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Chemical Data

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 111691

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 5(asz) sze gur lugal
2. sze ur5-ra zi3-da
3. ki ad-da-ta
4. mu ARAD2-{d}nanna nu-banda3-sze3
5. ur-{d}nin-mug-ga dam-gar3
reverse
1. szu ba-ti
2. guru7 du6-ku3-sig17-ta
3. iti {d}dumu-zi
4. mu us2-sa an-sza-an{ki} ba-hul

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Consult word list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Textual annotations

#new_text=P340403 # ID FORM LEMMA UPOSTAG XPOSTAG FEATS HEAD DEPREL DEPS MISC 1 5(asz) 5(asz)[one] NUM NU _ _ _ _ _ 2 sze sze[barley] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 3 gur gur[unit] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 4 lugal lugal[king] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Gen _ _ _ _ 5 sze sze[barley] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 6 ur5-ra urra[loan] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 7 zi3-da zid[flour] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Abs _ _ _ _ 8 ki ki[place] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 9 ad-da-ta Adda[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Abl _ _ _ _ 10 mu mu[name] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 11 ARAD2-{d}nanna Aradnanna[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 12 nu-banda3-sze3 nubanda[overseer] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Gen _ _ _ _ 13 ur-{d}nin-mug-ga Urninmuga[1] PROPN PN Animacy=Hum|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 14 dam-gar3 damgar[merchant] NOUN N Number=Sing|Case=Erg _ _ _ _ 15 szu szu[hand] NOUN N Number=Sing|Animacy=Nhum _ _ _ _ 16 ba-ti n] VERB V Voice=Mid|Person=3|Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 17 guru7 guru[grain_heap] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 18 du6-ku3-sig17-ta Dukusig[1] PROPN FN Number=Sing|Case=Gen,Abl _ _ _ _ 19 iti iti[month] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 20 {d}dumu-zi Dumuzi[1] PROPN MN Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 21 mu mu[year] NOUN N Number=Sing _ _ _ _ 22 us2-sa us[follow] VERB V _ _ _ _ _ 23 an-sza-an{ki} Anszan[1] PROPN GN Number=Sing|Case=Abs _ _ _ _ 24 ba-hul hulu[destroy] VERB V Voice=Mid|Person=3|Number=Sing _ _ _ _

Collections

British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Join Information:
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Seal information:
sealed ?; no seal info. given in BPOA 1
Artifact comments:

Text Information

Genre(s): Administrative
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: BPOA 1, 1748

[Ozaki2006BPOA1] Ozaki, Tohru, and Marcel Sigrist. 2006. Ur III Administrative Tablets from the British Museum. Part One. Biblioteca Del Próximo Oriente Antiguo 1. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 111691
Accession No.:

Provenience

Provenience: Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)
Elevation:
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Šulgi.35.12.00 (us2 year)
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2023-08-19 at 13:27:14	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune; Smidt, Gustav Ryberg	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:42:50	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2022-12-04 at 11:30:39	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Annotation	McGrath, William; Wang Jinyan	Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2011-07-22 at 15:00:27	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2009-06-03 at 11:58:04	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2008-01-03 at 20:55:48	Dahl, Jacob L.	Transliteration	Dahl, Jacob L.		CDLI	Approved
2006-10-05 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Englund, Robert K.; Molina, Manuel		CDLI	Approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (070573) (070573)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.111691) (BM.111691)
British Museum Collection (W_1914-0404-1757) (W_1914-0404-1757)

Notes

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Cite this Artifacts

“BPOA 01, 1748 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P340403.

BPOA 01, 1748 artifact entry (No. P340403). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P340403 (Original work published 2006)

BPOA 01, 1748 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P340403 (Accessed: March 8, 2026).

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	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {BPOA 01, 1748 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P340403},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P340403},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“BPOA 01, 1748 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). August 19, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P340403.

BPOA 01, 1748 artifact entry (No. P340403). (2023, August 19). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P340403 (Original work published 2006)

BPOA 01, 1748 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P340403 (Accessed: March 8, 2026).

@misc{2023BPOA,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-03-08]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {aug 19},
	title = {BPOA 01, 1748 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P340403},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P340403},
}

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M1  - 2026/3/8/
TI  - BPOA 01, 1748 artifact entry
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