OIP 011, 249 (P229318)
Business / Contracts; Lexical, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OIP 011, 249 |
|---|---|
| ID | P229318 |
| Museum no. | CBS 06527 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts; Lexical |
| 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 ii [0:1] o ii 11–o ii 11 | A built-up house plot of x sar, |
| Obverse Column ii [1:2] o ii 22–o ii 22 | with a second floor and a wooden roof |
| Obverse Column ii [2:3] o ii 33–o ii 33 | the door and the bar are there, |
| Obverse Column ii [3:4] o ii 44–o ii 44 | its exit is on the square, |
| Obverse Column ii [4:5] o ii 55–o ii 55 | next to the house of Lugirgilu - |
| Obverse Column ii [5:6] o ii 66–o ii 66 | the house of Amarabzu, son of Lugal-ezen, |
| Obverse Column ii [6:9] o ii 77–o ii 99 | Diŋirdanumea bought from Amarabzu, as its full price |
| Obverse Column ii [9:10] o ii 1010–o ii 1010 | he weighed out 48 shekels of silver. |
| Obverse Column ii [10:11] o ii 1111–o ii 1111 | [In the future] Amarabzu, son of Lugal-ezen, |
| Obverse Column ii [11:12] o ii 1212–o ii 1212 | [and] his heirs, as many as there will be, |
| Obverse Column ii [12:13] o ii 1313–o ii 1313 | will not raise [a claim concerning this house]. |
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' | [...]{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 2' | [...]{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 3' | [...]-⸢ra⸣{ki} | |
| 4' | [...]-⸢ar⸣-ia{ki} | |
| 5' | [...]{ki} | |
| 6' | ⸢kiš⸣{ki} | |
| 7' | [...]-⸢x⸣-ba{ki} | |
| 8' | [...]-e₃{ki} | |
| 9' | [...]-⸢du₈⸣-a{ki} | |
| 10' | [...]-⸢du₈⸣-a{ki} | |
| 11' | [...]{ki} | |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | |EZEN×A|{[ki]} | |
| 2' | |EZEN×X|{[ki]} | |
| 3' | EZEN{[ki]} | |
| 4' | EZEN-AN{[ki]} | |
| 5' | EZEN-an-⸢ne₂⸣{[ki]} | |
| 6' | i-lip{[ki]} | |
| 7' | a-lab₂{[ki]} | |
| 8' | ab-za-ab{[ki]} | |
| 9' | ašte₂(|LAGAB×A|){[ki]} | |
| 10' | sug{[ki]} | |
| 11' | ambar{[ki]} | |
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
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