MSL 14, 020 Db (P229411)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | MSL 14, 020 Db |
|---|---|
| ID | P229411 |
| Museum no. | N 5248 |
| 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 [0:5] o i 11–o i 55 | Nanna-ipqid received 15 shekels of silver, without interest, from Sîn-bani. |
| Obverse Column i [5:8] o i 66–o i 88 | He will weigh out its silver in the fifth month when the 15th day has passed. |
| Obverse Column i [8:12] o i 99–o i 1212 | If, when the 15th day of the fifth month has passed, he has not weighed out its silver, |
| Obverse Column i [12:14] o i 1313–o i 1414 | interest of 3 (shekels) per 10 shekels is to be added. |
| Obverse Column i [14:17] o i 1515–o i 1818 | [PN received n] shekels of silver, with interest, from [PN] |
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' | nam₂ ⸢nam⸣ [TUG₂] | |
| 2' | umuš u₄-⸢mu⸣-[uš] [TUG₂] | |
| 3' | dul du-⸢ul⸣ |U.TUG₂| | |
| 4' | MIN [ME] | |
| 5' | isib i-⸢si₂⸣-[ib] [ME] | |
| 6' | tuba tu-⸢ba⸣ [ME] | |
| 7' | lal ⸢la-al⸣ [LAL] | |
| 8' | suru₅ su₂-⸢ru⸣ [LAL] | |
| 9' | u₂-⸢DU⸣ |LAL₂.DU| | |
| 10' | ušur u₂-šu-⸢ur⸣ |LAL₂.SAR| | |
| 11' | niŋin₅ ni-mi-⸢en⸣ |LAL₂.LAGAB| | |
| 12' | ⸢la⸣-[...] [...] | |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢NI⸣ | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢NI⸣ | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢NI⸣ | |
| 4' | [...] ⸢NI⸣ | |
| 5' | [NI]-⸢NI⸣ | |
| 6' | [...] AŠ | |
| 7' | [...] AŠ | |
| 8' | [...] [AŠ] | |
| 9' | saŋtaₓ(DIŠ) saŋ-<<an>>-ta DIŠ | |
| 10' | saŋtaₓ(AŠ@z) saŋ-<<an>>-ta AŠ@z | |
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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