MSLF no. 271 (P228489)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | MSLF no. 271 |
|---|---|
| ID | P228489 |
| Museum no. | N 5544 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
English translation
By ORACC project obmc · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse Column i [0:3] o i 1'o i 1'–o i 3'3' | [... the barley with] its interest are to be returned in [...]. |
| Obverse Column i [3:5] o i 4'4'–o i 5'5' | (Its) witnesses, its month its year. |
| Obverse Column i [5:6] o i 6'6'–o i 6'6' | [Tot gur] tot barig tot ban of barley. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o i | ||
| 1' | [...]-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 2' | [še u₃] ⸢maš₂-bi⸣ | |
| 3' | [gur]-⸢ru⸣-dam | |
| 4' | ⸢lu₂⸣-ki-inim-ma | |
| 5' | ⸢itud⸣-bi mu-bi | |
| 6' | n(aš) n(barig) n(ban₂) še gur | |
Sources & licences
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