N 3815 (P230144)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 3815 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230144 |
| Museum no. | N 3815 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse Column i [1:6] r i' 2'2'–r i' 6'6' | Nanna-[...] received from PN 2 shekels [of silver; as] its interest ... |
| Reverse Column ii [0:1] r ii' 1'r ii 1'–r ii' 1'r ii 1' | ... (as its interest a woman named PN), the slave-girl of Lu-Inana |
| Reverse Column ii [1:5] r ii' 2'2'–r ii' 5'5' | Lu-Inana, her master, will place as a pledge; |
| Reverse Column ii [5:7] r ii' 6'6'–r ii' 7'7' | as her daily chores ... |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r i' | ||
| 1' | ⸢kug⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | 2 giŋ₄ [kug-babbar] | |
| 3' | ki ⸢x⸣-[...] | |
| 4' | {m}{d}nanna-[x-x] | |
| 5' | šu ba-an-[ti] | |
| 6' | maš₂-⸢bi⸣-[še₃] | |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢geme₂ lu₂⸣-{d}inana | |
| 2' | ⸢lu₂-{d⸣}inana | |
| 3' | lugal-a-ni-ir | |
| 4' | kug-ta gub-ba-aš | |
| 5' | ib₂-ta-an-gub | |
| 6' | ud 1-e | |
| 7' | a₂-ŋeš-ŋar-ra-ni | |
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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