MSL 13, 015 U1 (P229576)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | MSL 13, 015 U1 |
|---|---|
| ID | P229576 |
| Museum no. | UM 29-13-511 |
| 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 [0:1] o i 1o i 1–o i 1o i 1 | An empty house plot of 1 and 1/2 sar, |
| Obverse Column i [1:2] o i 22–o i 22 | next to the house of Daqum, |
| Obverse Column i [2:3] o i 33–o i 33 | (it's) the house of Ilak-šu[qir], |
| Obverse Column i [3:6] o i 44–o i 66 | Ludiŋi[ra] bought from Ilak-šuqir, |
| Obverse Column i [6:9] o i 77–o i 99 | [as its full price he weighed out] 2 [minas of silver]. |
| Obverse Column i [9:13] o i 1010–o i 1313 | [In the fut]ure Ila[k-šuqir] and [his heirs, as many as] there will be... |
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 | ||
| 1 | 1(diš) 1/2 e₂ ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 2 | da ⸢e₂ x x x x⸣ | |
| 3 | e₂ i-la ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 4 | [...] ⸢x⸣-AD-ak-šu-ha-ta | |
| 5 | ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| 6 | [...] ŠU₂ ⸢in⸣-[...] | |
| 7 | [...] | |
| 8 | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 9 | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 10 | ud [...] | |
| 11 | DIŠ ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 12 | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| r i' | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | ka-⸢x⸣-[...] }} | |
| 3' | i-me-[...] }} | |
| 4' | še-⸢e-x⸣ [...] }} | |
| 5' | ⸢ki-iš-ša-tum }} GIR₃⸣ | |
| 6' | [...]-aš-ru-⸢tu }} ir₉⸣ | |
| 7' | ⸢ki-ir⸣-rum }} gir₁₆ | |
| 8' | ⸢šur₂⸣ | |
| 9' | ⸢sumur⸣ | |
| 10' | šur₂-du | |
| 11' | mir-⸢ša₄⸣ | |
| 12' | ⸢x barag⸣ | |
| 13' | sa-al-kad₅ | |
| 14' | barag | |
| 15' | barag-sig₉-ga | |
| 16' | barag ri-a | |
| 17' | barag ri-a | |
| 18' | barag dur₂-ŋar-ra | |
| 19' | barag dur₂-ŋar-ra | |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 2' | ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 3' | uš₂ | |
| 4' | lugud | |
| 5' | uš₂ | |
| 6' | ug₅-ga | |
| 7' | pe-tu-u₂ }} bad | |
| 8' | ne-su₂-u₂ }} bad | |
| 9' | pa-la-sum }} bad | |
| 10' | re-e-qum }} bad | |
| 11' | pe-hu-um }} bad | |
| 12' | ga-ma-ru-⸢um⸣ }} til | |
| 13' | la-bi-ru-um }} sumun | |
| 14' | et-tu-u₂-tum }} aš | |
| 15' | ṣe-ni-[...] }} aš | |
| 16' | u₂-pu-⸢tum⸣ }} aš | |
| 17' | zi-ka-rum }} aš | |
| 18' | [...]-du-um }} dili | |
| 19' | dili-ni | |
| 20' | aš-ša₄ | |
Sources & licences
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