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HS 1730 (P229920)

Lexical, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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DesignationHS 1730
IDP229920
Museum no.HS 1730
CollectionHilprecht Collection, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
LanguageSumerian
PeriodOld Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
GenreLexical
Find spotNippur (mod. Nuffar)
Coordinates32.1271, 45.2300

English translation

By ORACC project dcclt · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1sheep with wool
Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22sheep shorn of wool
Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33thin(partially grown)-fleeced sheep
Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55long-fleeced sheep
Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66sheep of the breast, maturity designation
Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77sheep for a presentation offering
Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88sheep for an audience gift

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1udu bar-ŋal₂
2udu bar-sug₄
3udu bar-sal
4udu ŋir₂-tab-ba
5udu zulumhi₂
6udu gaba
7udu gaba-ri-a
8udu igi-⸢duh⸣-a
9⸢udu⸣ [...]
r ii'
1'{m}⸢lu₂-x⸣-[...]
2'{m}lu₂-kuara₂{⸢ki⸣}
3'{m}lu₂-|A.HA|{ki}
4'{m}lu₂-kuara{ki}
5'{m}lu₂-⸢IM⸣{ki}
6'{m}lu₂-⸢IM⸣{ki}
7'{m}lu₂-IM{ki}
8'{m}lu₂-ama-na
9'{m}lu₂-ama-na-ŋu₁₀
10'{m}lu₂-⸢al-ama⸣-[na]
r iii'
1'{⸢m⸣}lu₂-⸢x-x-x⸣
2'{m}lu₂-šu-kalam-ma
3'{m}lu₂-e₂-an-na
4'{m}lu₂-e₂-an-ki
5'{m}lu₂-gu-la
6'{m}lu₂-gu-la-ŋu₁₀
7'{m}lu₂-⸢al⸣-gu-la
8'{[m}lu₂-x]-⸢kiš⸣-a
9'{⸢m}lu₂-x-gi⸣-gun₃
10'{[m]}lu₂-ban₃-da

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