TMH NF 1-2, 069 (P134381)
Legal, Ur III, Nippur · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | TMH NF 1-2, 069 |
|---|---|
| ID | P134381 |
| Museum no. | HS 1069 |
| Collection | Hilprecht Collection, University of Jena, Jena, Germany |
| 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 Cripps, Eric · Via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI (reuse with citation)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| obverse 1 | ... gur barley |
| obverse 2 | barley for (the temple household) of Enlil, |
| obverse 3 | to be stored in that place, |
| obverse 4 | from Lugal-namtare |
| obverse 5 | did Ur-Ḫaya |
| obverse 6 | receive; |
| obverse 7 | the extra month “Harvest,” |
| obverse 8 | year: “En-maḫgal-ana as en priestess of Innana was installed.” |
| reverse 1 | the harvest will remit this barley (debt) |
| reverse 2 | into the household of Enlil |
| reverse 3 | which he is entering; |
| reverse 4 | That “My field by the storm was ruined!”, or |
| reverse 5 | “by flood water was ruined!” |
| reverse 6 | to the king or to the chief administrator he will not say, |
| reverse 7 | by the royal name he swore. |
| seal 1 1 | Ur-Ḫaya, |
| seal 1 2 | scribe, |
| seal 1 3 | son of Engar-du, |
| seal 1 4 | cupbearer. |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | [n] sze gur | |
| 2 | sze {d}en-lil2-la2 | |
| 3 | ki-ba se-ge-de3 | |
| 4 | ki lugal-nam-tar-re-ta | |
| 5 | ur-{d}ha-ia3-ke4 | |
| 6 | szu ba-ti | |
| 7 | iti diri sze-sag11-ku5 | |
| 8 | mu en-mah-gal-an-na en {d}inanna ba-hun | |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | sze-bi buru14 ama-bi gi4-gi4 | |
| 2 | e2 {d}en-lil2-la2-ka# | |
| 3 | i3-ni-kux(KWU636)-kux(KWU636)-a | |
| 4 | a-sza3-mu u4-de3 ba-ab-[de3] | |
| 5 | a-e ba-ab-de3 | |
| 6 | lugal-ra u3 sanga nu-un-na-be2-[a] | |
| 7 | mu lugal-bi in-pa3 | |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | ur-{d}ha-ia3 | |
| 2 | dub-sar | |
| 3 | dumu engar-du10 | |
| 4 | sagi | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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