MSL 08/1, 082 V43 (P230558)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | MSL 08/1, 082 V43 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230558 |
| Museum no. | UM 29-16-018 |
| 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 [0:1] o i 1'o i 1'–o i 1'o i 1' | [tot. gur of barley]for buying beer, |
| Obverse Column i [1:2] o i 2'2'–o i 2'2' | for a partnership enterprise, |
| Obverse Column i [2:5] o i 3'3'–o i 5'5' | Damu-galzu received from Damu-azu; |
| Obverse Column i [5:7] o i 6'6'–o i 7'7' | [after] he asks him for the barley, he will measure it. |
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' | [kaš] ⸢sa₁₀-sa₁₀⸣-[de₃] | |
| 2' | ⸢nam⸣-tab-ba-še₃ | |
| 3' | ki {d}da-mu-a-zu-ta | |
| 4' | {m}{d}da-mu-gal-zu-ke₄ | |
| 5' | [šu] ba-an-ti | |
| 6' | [egir] ⸢še⸣ al in-na-dug₄ | |
| 7' | [še] ⸢al⸣-aŋ₂-⸢e⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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