CBS 04813 + CBS 06853 (P227962)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CBS 04813 + CBS 06853 |
|---|---|
| ID | P227962 |
| Museum no. | CBS 04813 + CBS 06853 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts |
| Find spot | uncertain |
English translation
By ORACC project obmc · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse Column i [0:2] i' 1'i 1'–i' 2'2' | [...] he will take back [...]. |
| Obverse Column i [1:2] i' 2'2'–i' 2'2' | [Tot] gur of barley, |
| Obverse Column i [2:4] i' 3'3'–i' 4'4' | from a sealed tablet of 20 gur of barley, (which is) the delivery of E-luti, |
| Obverse Column i [4:6] i' 5'5'–i' 6'6' | he has to return to Lu-Nanna. |
| Obverse Column ii [0:2] ii' 1'ii 1'–ii' 2'2' | [PN₁ recei]ved [tot gur of barley from PN₂]; |
| Obverse Column ii [2:4] ii' 3'3'–ii' 4'4' | to be returned at its due-time. |
| Obverse Column ii [4:7] ii' 5'5'–ii' 7'7' | If at its due-time he has not returned it, |
| Obverse Column ii [7:9] ii' 8'8'– | [the barley (and its) interest are to be measur]ed. |
| Obverse Column iii [0:2] iii' 1'iii 1'–iii' 2'2' | [...] he [will measure] the barley [in the second month]. |
| Obverse Column iii [2:6] iii' 3'3'–iii' 6'6' | I[f in the seco]nd month [he has not measured] that barley, |
| Obverse Column iii [6:8] iii' 7'7'–iii' 8'8' | [he will add] an interest of [100 sila of barley per] gur. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From 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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| i' | ||
| 1' | [ba]-⸢an-tum₃-mu⸣ | |
| 2' | [x] še gur | |
| 3' | ⸢šag₄⸣ kišib 2(u) še gur | |
| 4' | mu-DU e₂-lu₂-ti | |
| 5' | {m}lu₂-{d}nanna-ra | |
| 6' | [in]-na-ra-[su-su] | |
| ii' | ||
| 1' | [...]-⸢x-x⸣ | |
| 2' | [šu ba]-⸢an⸣-ti | |
| 3' | ki ⸢uludin⸣-<bi>-še₃ | |
| 4' | gur-⸢ru⸣-dam | |
| 5' | tukum-bi | |
| 6' | ki uludin-<bi>-še₃ | |
| 7' | ⸢la⸣-[ba]-an-gur | |
| 8' | [še maš₂ ŋa₂]-ŋa₂-⸢dam⸣ | |
| iii' | ||
| 1' | {[iti}gud-si-su-ka] | |
| 2' | še ⸢i₃⸣-[aŋ₂-e] | |
| 3' | ⸢tukum⸣-[bi] | |
| 4' | {iti}gud-⸢si⸣-[su-ka] | |
| 5' | ⸢x⸣ a ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | ⸢še⸣-bi ⸢la⸣-[ba-an-aŋ₂] | |
| 7' | maš₂ 1(aš) ⸢gur⸣ 1(barig) 4(ban₂) še-ta-am₃] | |
| 8' | bi₂-ib-tah-[e] | |
| 9' | 2(aš) [... še gur] | |
| 10' | maš₂ [...] | |
Sources & licences
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