CBS 19809 (P229722)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CBS 19809 |
|---|---|
| ID | P229722 |
| Museum no. | CBS 19809 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts |
| Find spot | Nippur |
| 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 [0:2] o i 1o i 1–o i 22 | [Tot] silver, without interest, |
| Obverse Column i [2:3] o i 33–o i 33 | the silver equals the silver; |
| Obverse Column i [3:4] o i 44–o i 44 | since the silver equals the silver, |
| Obverse Column i [4:6] o i 55–o i 66 | he will return one shekel of silver a year |
| Obverse Column i [6:9] o i 77–o i 99 | PN has received from Sîn-rē'ûm: |
| Obverse Column i [9:12] o i 1010–o i 1212 | he will pay in full its silver in the third month within two years. |
| Obverse Column i [12:15] o i 1313–o i 1515 | If in the third month [within 2] years (he has not paid in full its silver) ... |
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 | [...] ⸢kug-babbar⸣ | |
| 2 | maš₂ nu-ub-tuku | |
| 3 | kug kug-da ba-da-sa₂-a | |
| 4 | mu kug kug-da ba-da-⸢sa₂⸣-a | |
| 5 | mu-a 1 giŋ₄-ta-am₃ | |
| 6 | ib₂-ta-su-⸢su⸣-e | |
| 7 | ki {d}suen-SIPA-ta | |
| 8 | {m}ri-⸢mi-x-x⸣ | |
| 9 | šu ba-an-ti | |
| 10 | {iti}⸢šeg₁₂⸣-a-ka | |
| 11 | mu 2-kam-ma-ta | |
| 12 | ⸢kug⸣-bi i₃-til-e | |
| 13 | tukum-bi | |
| 14 | {iti}šeg₁₂-a-ka | |
| 15 | ⸢mu⸣ 2-kam-ma-ta] | |
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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