OIP 011, 014 (P229633)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OIP 011, 014 |
|---|---|
| ID | P229633 |
| Museum no. | CBS 06560 |
| 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 [0:4] o i 1'o i 1'–o i 4'4' | [Lugal-ib]ila rec[eived from Lugal]-niŋzu [9 gur of barley for which an interest of 100 sila of barley per 1 gur is charg]ed. |
| Obverse Column i [4:6] o i 5'5'–o i 6'6' | [The barley and] its interest have satisfied Lu[gal-niŋz]u. |
| Obverse Column i [6:8] o i 7'7'–o i 8'8' | (Now) the sealed tablet has got lost from (the house of) Lu[gal-niŋzu]: |
| Obverse Column i [8:11] o i 9'9'–o i 11'11' | for the second time he (= Lugal-niŋzu) has drawn up for him a copy of his sealed tablet. |
| Obverse Column i [11:12] o i 12'12'–o i 12'12' | (In the future) [should the (lost) tablet be found], it has to be destroyed. |
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' | [sig₉-ge₄]-⸢de₃⸣ | |
| 2' | [ki lugal]-niŋ₂-zu-ta | |
| 3' | {[m}lugal]-⸢ibila⸣-ke₄ | |
| 4' | [šu ba-an]-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 5' | [še u₃] ⸢maš₂⸣-bi | |
| 6' | šag₄ ⸢lugal⸣-[niŋ₂]-⸢zu⸣ al-⸢dug₃⸣ | |
| 7' | kišib ki ⸢lugal⸣-[niŋ₂-zu] | |
| 8' | ⸢u₂-gu ba⸣-[an-de₂] | |
| 9' | ⸢gibil⸣-bi-še₃-⸢am₃⸣ | |
| 10' | ⸢gaba⸣-ri kišib-ba-ni | |
| 11' | in-⸢na⸣-an-tak₄ | |
| 12' | [kišib ul-pad₃ zi]-⸢re-dam⸣ | |
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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