MSL 13, 014 F1 (P229567)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | MSL 13, 014 F1 |
|---|---|
| ID | P229567 |
| Museum no. | N 6041 + N 6049 + UM 29-16-195 |
| 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 1o i 1–o i 55 | Lu-Nanna has received from Ilšu-ibnišu [1?] gur of barley, with interest; |
| Obverse Column i [5:8] o i 66–o i 88 | at the delivery of the harvest its barley has to satisfy him (= Ilšu-ibnišu). |
| Obverse Column i [8:13] o i 99–o i 1313 | Ea-[...] has received from Kug-[...] 2 gur of barley, without interest; |
| Obverse Column i [13:16] o i 1414– | at the [...] month ... |
| Obverse Column ii [0:5] o ii 1o ii 1–o ii 55 | ... at the delivery of the harvest, as its interest, they(?) will make (their) accountings, and its silver ... |
| Obverse Column ii [5:10] o ii 66–o ii 1010 | 5 shekels of silver PN has as a claim against Ilan-danna ... |
| Obverse Column iii [0:2] o iii 1o iii 1–o iii 22 | ... he will pay back the silver at the delivery of the harvest. |
| Obverse Column iii [3:7] o iii 44–o iii 77 | If at the delivery of the harvest he has not pay back the silver, at the [delivery] of the harvest ... |
| Obverse Column iii [7:16] o iii 88–o iii 1616 | [A built-up] house plot [of tot sar, ..., (which is) the house of], Šēp-Sîn, PN, the barber, re[nted in ten]ancy from Šēp-Sîn, at the annual [rent of tot shekels of s]ilver ... |
| Obverse Column iv [0:6] o iv 44–o iv 99 | Ipqatum bought from Ibn[atum a built-up house plot of] 2 sar, [...]: |
| Obverse Column iv [6:9] o iv 1010–o iv 1212 | he paid 10 shekels 1/2 of silver as its full price. |
| Obverse Column iv [9:13] o iv 1313–o iv 1616 | In the future Ibnatum and his heirs, as many as there will be, will not raise a claim concerning this house; |
| Obverse Column iv [13:16] o iv 1717– | he has sworn by the name of the king. |
| Reverse Column i [0:4] r i' 1'r i 1'–r i' 4'4' | [A field ...], in the fi[eld ...], bordering (the field) of Belanum, (which is) the field of Imgurrum, |
| Reverse Column i [4:11] r i' 5'5'–r i' 11'11' | PN has leased in tenancy from Imgurrum, in order to bail out water like (his neighbours) to his right (and) to his left. |
| Reverse Column i [11:15] r i' 12'12'–r i' 15'15' | Imgurrum has received from PN 2 gur of barley as seed for the field; |
| Reverse Column i [15:18] r i' 16'16'–r i' 18'18' | at the harvest ... |
| Reverse Column i [18:21] r i' 19'19'–r i' 21'21' | A field ... of 2.1/2 iku, in the field ..., bordering ... |
| Reverse Column ii [0:13] r ii' 1'r ii 1'–r ii' 13'13' | PN₂ has leased in tenancy, annually, from PN₁ [a field ...] for a partnerhip enterprise; |
| Reverse Column ii [13:19] r ii' 14'14'–r ii' 19'19' | they will put up the expenses for the field, as many as there will be, in equal shares; the barley of the field, as much as there will be, ... |
| Reverse Column iii [0:1] r iii' 1'r iii 1'–r iii' 1'r iii 1' | he p[aid ... as its full price]. |
| Reverse Column iii [1:6] r iii' 2'2'–r iii' 6'6' | In the future [PN] and [his heirs], as many as there will be, will not [raise a claim] concerning this field; |
| Reverse Column iii [6:8] r iii' 7'7'–r iii' 8'8' | he has s[worn by the name of the king]. |
| Reverse Column iii [7:14] r iii' 8'8'–r iii' 14'14' | [A field ..., (which is) the field of Apil]-ilišu, PN (has leased) in tenancy from Apil-ilišu ... |
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 | 1(aš) še gur | |
| 2 | ⸢maš₂⸣ in-tuku | |
| 3 | ki il₃-šu-ib-ni-šu-ta | |
| 4 | {m}lu₂-{d}nanna-ke₄ | |
| 5 | šu ⸢ba⸣-an-ti | |
| 6 | mu-DU ud buru₁₄-ka | |
| 7 | še-bi šag₄-ga-ni | |
| 8 | bi₂-ib-dug₃-ge | |
| 9 | 2(aš) še⸣ gur | |
| 10 | maš₂ ⸢nu-ub⸣-tuku | |
| 11 | ki ⸢kug⸣-[...-ta] | |
| 12 | {m}⸢e₂-a⸣-[...] | |
| 13 | ⸢šu⸣ [ba-an-ti] | |
| 14 | {iti}⸢x⸣-[x-x] | |
| o ii | ||
| 1 | mu-⸢DU ud buru₁₄⸣-ka | |
| 2 | maš₂-bi-še₃ | |
| 3 | niŋ₂-kas₇ al-⸢ak-e⸣ | |
| 4 | u₃ kug-babbar-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 5 | uludin-<bi>-še₃ al-⸢x⸣-[x] | |
| 6 | 5 giŋ₄ kug-babbar | |
| 7 | maš₂ nu-ub-tuku | |
| 8 | ugu (AN.AN-)dan-⸢na⸣ | |
| 9 | ⸢x-x⸣-[...] | |
| 10 | ⸢x-x⸣-tuku | |
| o iii | ||
| 1 | mu-DU ud buru₁₄-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 2 | kug i₃-la₂-e | |
| 3 | tukum-bi | |
| 4 | mu-DU ud buru₁₄-ka | |
| 5 | ⸢kug⸣ la-ba-an-la₂ | |
| 6 | [mu]-⸢DU⸣ ud buru₁₄-ka | |
| 7 | [x] ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 8 | n sar] ⸢e₂⸣ [du₃]-a | |
| 9 | [...] ⸢x x x x⸣ | |
| 10 | [e₂] še-ep-{d}suen | |
| 11 | ki še-ep-{d}suen-ta | |
| 12 | {m}x-x-i₃-li₂ šu-i-ke₄ | |
| 13 | [nam]-⸢ga⸣-an-tuš-u₃-de₃ | |
| 14 | [a₂] ⸢mu⸣-u₈-a-še₃ | |
| 15 | n giŋ₄] ⸢kug⸣-babbar | |
| 16 | [ib₂-ta-an]-⸢e₃⸣ | |
| o iv | ||
| 4 | 2 sar [e₂ du₃-a] | |
| 5 | [...] | |
| 6 | [...] | |
| 7 | ki ib-⸢na⸣-[tum-ta] | |
| 8 | {m}ip-qa₂-tum | |
| 9 | in-ši-in-sa₁₀ | |
| 10 | sam₂ til-la-bi-še₃ | |
| 11 | 10 1/2 giŋ₄ kug-babbar | |
| 12 | in-na-an-la₂ | |
| 13 | ud kur₂-še₃ ib-na-tum | |
| 14 | u₃ ibila-ni | |
| 15 | a-na me-a-bi | |
| 16 | e₂-bi-še₃ inim nu-ŋa₂-ŋa₂-a | |
| 17 | ⸢mu⸣ lugal-bi in-pad₃ | |
| r i' | ||
| 1' | n(iku) [gana₂ a-šag₄ ...] | |
| 2' | šag₄ a-⸢šag₄⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | us₂-a-DU be-la-nu-⸢um⸣ | |
| 4' | a-šag₄ im-gur-rum | |
| 5' | ki im-gur-rum-ta | |
| 6' | {m}{d}lama-APIN-ke₄ | |
| 7' | nam-apin-la₂-še₃ | |
| 8' | a bal-e-de₃ | |
| 9' | a₂ zid-da-ni-gin₇ | |
| 10' | a₂ gab₂-bu-ni-gin₇ | |
| 11' | ib₂-ta-an-e₃ | |
| 12' | 2(aš) še gur numun a-šag₄-ga-⸢še₃⸣ | |
| 13' | ki {d}lama-APIN-ta | |
| 14' | {m}im-gur-rum-ke₄ | |
| 15' | šu ba-an-ti | |
| 16' | ud buru₁₄-ka | |
| 17' | ⸢KI GAR x⸣ [...] | |
| 18' | ⸢ki⸣-bi i₃-⸢x⸣-[x] | |
| 19' | 2(iku) 1/2(iku) gana₂ a-šag₄ ⸢x⸣-[x] | |
| 20' | šag₄ a-šag₄ x-x-x-x | |
| 21' | us₂-a-DU ⸢x⸣-[...] | |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | [...]-⸢x⸣-a | |
| 2' | [...]-e | |
| 3' | [...]-⸢x⸣-lum | |
| 4' | [...]-hi-tum | |
| 5' | [...]-⸢x⸣-ra | |
| 6' | [...-hi]-tum | |
| 7' | [...]-⸢x-x⸣ | |
| 8' | [...] (PA.AL) x x | |
| 9' | [...]-⸢x⸣-ma-ke₄ | |
| 10' | ⸢nam-apin⸣-la₂-še₃ | |
| 11' | nam-tab-⸢ba⸣-še₃ | |
| 12' | a₂ mu-u₈-[a]-⸢še₃⸣ | |
| 13' | ib₂-ta-[an-e₃] | |
| 14' | ⸢a₂-kuš₂-u₃⸣ a-šag₄-ga | |
| 15' | a-na ŋal₂-la-bi | |
| 16' | lu₂ lu₂-u₃-ra | |
| 17' | in-ši-in-ŋa₂-ŋa₂ | |
| 18' | ⸢še a⸣-šag₄-ga | |
| 19' | ⸢a-na⸣ ŋal₂-la-bi | |
| r iii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢in⸣-[na-an-la₂] | |
| 2' | ud kur₂-[še₃ ...] | |
| 3' | u₃ ⸢ibila⸣-[ni] | |
| 4' | a-na me-[a-bi] | |
| 5' | a-šag₄-bi-še₃ | |
| 6' | [inim] nu-[ŋa₂]-⸢ŋa₂⸣-a | |
| 7' | [mu lugal-bi in]-⸢pad₃⸣ | |
| 8' | [...] | |
| 9' | ⸢x⸣ [...]-⸢x-x⸣ | |
| 10' | [a-šag₄ a-pil₂]-i₃-li₂-šu | |
| 11' | ⸢ki⸣ [a]-⸢pil₂-i₃-li₂⸣-šu-ta | |
| 12' | {m}⸢x-x⸣-ra-bi | |
| 13' | ⸢nam-apin-la₂-še₃⸣ | |
| 14' | ⸢x-x-x-x⸣ | |
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