UM 29-15-475 (P230550)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UM 29-15-475 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230550 |
| Museum no. | UM 29-15-475 |
| 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 [0:6] o i 1'o i 1'–o i 6'6' | ... as many [profits] as there may be, [the two(?) of th]em will [divide equally among themselves] |
| Obverse Column i [6:9] o i 7'7'–o i 9'9' | ... (and the creditor) will not recognize (commercial losses); |
| Obverse Column i [9:10] o i 10'10'–o i 10'10' | he has sworn [by the name of the king]. |
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' | [...] x x | |
| 2' | [a-na me]-a-bi | |
| 3' | [a₂-tuku] ⸢ŋal₂⸣-la-bi | |
| 4' | [min₃-na]-⸢ne⸣-ne | |
| 5' | [teš₂-a sig₁₀]-ga-bi | |
| 6' | [i₃-ba]-e-ne | |
| 7' | [...]-an-til₃-la | |
| 8' | [...] ib-tak₄-tak₄ | |
| 9' | [...] nu-ub-zu-zu | |
| 10' | [mu lugal]-⸢la-bi in-pad₃⸣ | |
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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