PBS 11/1, 040 (P228991)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | PBS 11/1, 040 |
|---|---|
| ID | P228991 |
| Museum no. | CBS 05912 + N 4966 |
| 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 Chiera, Edward · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse Column i [0:1] o i 11–o i 11 | [20] gur of barley |
| Obverse Column i [1:4] o i 22–o i 44 | [Lu]-Inana gave as a loan to [Ab]um-Ilum |
| Obverse Column i [4:6] o i 55–o i 66 | In the fourth [month] he will measure [the barley]. |
| Obverse Column i [6:8] o i 77–o i 88 | (Its) witnesses, [its month], its year. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r i' | ||
| 1' | sun₇ su₂-un ⸢KAL⸣ | |
| 2' | ŋuruš mu-⸢ru⸣-uš KAL | |
| 3' | gur gu-ur GUR | |
| 4' | ugur ⸢u₃⸣-gu-⸢ur⸣ |U.GUR| | |
| 5' | lum lu-⸢um⸣ ⸢LUM⸣ | |
| 6' | hum hu-um LUM | |
| 7' | gum₂ gu-um LUM | |
| 8' | guz gu-uz LUM | |
| 9' | gum₂-gum₂ ⸢gu⸣-um-gu-um ⸢LUM-LUM⸣ | |
| 10' | bi bi-i ⸢BI⸣ | |
| 11' | kaš ⸢ka⸣-aš ⸢BI⸣ | |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | [...]-⸢eš⸣ |HI׊E| | |
| 2' | ellaŋ₂ ⸢x-la-aŋ₂⸣ |HI׊E| | |
| 3' | ⸢x⸣ |HI×AŠ₂| | |
| 4' | ur₅ ur₂ |HI×AŠ₂| | |
| 5' | mur mu-⸢ur⸣ |HI×AŠ₂| | |
| 6' | murum mu-ru-um |HI×AŠ₂| | |
| 7' | kinkin ki-in-ki-in |HI×AŠ₂| | |
| 8' | ub ub UB | |
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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