PBS 08/2, 157 (P125408)
Legal, Ur III, Nippur · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | PBS 08/2, 157 |
|---|---|
| ID | P125408 |
| Museum no. | CBS 07218 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
English translation
By Guidi, Carlo · Via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI (reuse with citation)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| obverse 1 | One female slave, |
| obverse 2 | Aya-zimu is her name, |
| obverse 3 | whose price is 10 shekels of silver, |
| obverse 4 | from Urniĝar, son of Ur-šamaš, |
| obverse 5 | Ur-kalkal, son of Ur-enlila, |
| obverse 6 | has bought. |
| obverse 7 | (That) man against man shall not return (on the decision) |
| obverse 8 | by the name of the king they have sworn. |
| obverse 9 | In the presence of Lugal-azida, son of Balili; |
| obverse 10 | in the presence of Waraddam, son of Aba-enlilgin; |
| reverse 1 | in the presence of Lugal-kuzu, secretary of the shrine; |
| reverse 2 | in the presence of Adalal, courtyard sweeper; |
| reverse 3 | in the presence of Zula, miller; |
| reverse 4 | they are its witnesses. |
| reverse 5 | The month of Abum, the day 12 has passed, |
| reverse 6 | (of) the year after (the year in which) the big (city) wall of Nippur was built. |
| seal 1 1 | Urniĝar |
| seal 1 2 | son of Ur-šamaš |
| seal 2 1 | Aya-zimu |
| seal 2 2 | slave of Geme-sîn |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | 1(disz) sag-[nita?] | |
| 2 | a-a-zi-mu mu-ni-im | |
| 3 | nig2-sa10-ma-ni 1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar | |
| 4 | ur-nigar{gar} dumu ur-{d}utu-ra | |
| 5 | ur-{d}kal-kal dumu ur-{d}en-lil2-la2 | |
| 6 | in-szi-sa10 | |
| 7 | lu2 lu2 nu-gi4-gi4-de3 | |
| 8 | mu lugal-bi i3-pa3-esz2 | |
| 9 | igi lugal-a2-zi-da dumu ba-li2-li2-sze3 | |
| 10 | igi ARAD2-dam dumu a-ba-{d}en-lil2-gin7-sze3 | |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | igi lugal-ku3-zu sukkal esz3-sze3 | |
| 2 | igi a-da-lal3 kisal-luh-sze3 | |
| 3 | igi zu-la ar3-ar3-sze3 | |
| 4 | lu2-inim-ma-bi-me | |
| 5 | iti NE-NE-gar u4 1(u) 2(disz) ba-zal | |
| 6 | mu us2-sa bad3-gal nibru{ki} ba-du3 | |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-nigar{gar} | |
| 2 | dumu ur-{d}utu | |
| seal 2 | ||
| 1 | a-a-zi-mu | |
| 2 | ARAD2 geme2!-{d}suen | |
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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