UM 29-16-575 (P230563)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UM 29-16-575 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230563 |
| Museum no. | UM 29-16-575 |
| 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 [0:5] o i 1'o i 1'–o i 5'5' | ... Lu-Lamma confronted ..., appeared (in court) and declared: Lu-Inana ... |
| Obverse Column i [5:8] o i 6'6'–o i 8'8' | (but) he did [not] have witnesses [and] did not drawn up a sealed document. |
| Obverse Column i [8:15] o i 9'9'–o i 16'16' | [since] he did not have witnesses (and) did not drawn up [a sealed document], the judges (remanded) Lu-Lamma to [the gate] of Ninurta ... |
| Reverse Column i [0:3] r i' 1'r i 1'–r i' 3'3' | ... since he did not ... |
| Reverse Column i [3:8] r i' 4'4'–r i' 8'8' | he has brought a lump of silver of 10 shekels (and) left it as a pledge: |
| Reverse Column i [8:11] r i' 9'9'–r i' 11'11' | when he gives back the barley, he will take back this lump of silver. |
| Reverse Column i [11:12] r i' 12'12'–r i' 12'12' | 7 gur of barley |
| Reverse Column i [12:15] r i' 13'13'–r i' 15'15' | from a sealed tablet of 20 gur of barley, (which is) the delivery of Eluti, |
| Reverse Column i [15:16] r i' 16'16'–r i' 16'16' | (he has return) to Lu-Inana. |
| Reverse Column i [16:18] r i' 17'17'–r i' 18'18' | (Its) witnesses, its month, its year. |
| Reverse Column i [18:21] r i' 19'19'– | [Tot gur] of barley ... |
| Reverse Column ii [0:2] r ii' 1'r ii 1'–r ii' 2'2' | ... he will [add an interest rate of ...] ... |
| Reverse Column ii [1:2] r ii' 2'2'–r ii' 2'2' | [9] gur of barley, |
| Reverse Column ii [2:5] r ii' 3'3'–r ii' 5'5' | [an interest ra]te of [100 sila] of barley per 1 gur is char[ged], |
| Reverse Column ii [5:8] r ii' 6'6'–r ii' 8'8' | [Lugal-ibi]la received from [Lugal]-niŋzu. |
| Reverse Column ii [8:11] r ii' 9'9'–r ii' 11'11' | [The barley and] its interest [(have satisfied) Lugal-ni]ŋzu. |
| Reverse Column ii [11:13] r ii' 12'12'–r ii' 13'13' | [(Now) the sealed tablet] has got lost from (the house) of Lugal-niŋzu: |
| Reverse Column ii [13:17] r ii' 14'14'–r ii' 17'17' | for the [second time] he has drawn up [for him a copy] of his [sealed tablet]. |
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' | {[m}lu₂]-{d}⸢lamma-ke₄⸣ | |
| 2' | [x]-⸢x-x⸣ gaba i-ib₂-ri | |
| 3' | [igi]-ni in-ŋar-ma | |
| 4' | {[m]}⸢lu₂⸣-{d}inana | |
| 5' | ⸢x-x⸣ bi₂-in-dug₄-⸢ga⸣ | |
| 6' | ⸢lu₂⸣-ki-inim-ma | |
| 7' | [nu]-mu-ni-in-tuku | |
| 8' | [u₃] kišib nu-mu-ni-in-tak₄ | |
| 9' | [mu] lu₂-ki-inim-ma | |
| 10' | [nu]-mu-ni-in-tuku-a-še₃ | |
| 11' | [kišib] ⸢nu⸣-mu-ni-in-tak₄ | |
| 12' | ⸢di-kud⸣-e-ne | |
| 14' | {m}⸢lu₂⸣-{d}lamma | |
| 15' | [kan₄] {d}nin-urta-še₃ | |
| 16' | [...]-še₃ | |
| r i' | ||
| 1' | ⸢x-x⸣-[...] | |
| 2' | mu ⸢dam⸣ [dumu] | |
| 3' | nu-tuku-a-[še₃] | |
| 4' | ⸢kug pad-ra₂⸣ | |
| 5' | 10 giŋ₄ kug-⸢babbar⸣ | |
| 6' | a-ab-tum₃-⸢mu⸣ | |
| 7' | ši-pi₂-ir-tum-⸢še₃⸣ | |
| 8' | in-na-an-⸢tak₄⸣ | |
| 9' | ud še ⸢ba⸣-ab-⸢šum₂-mu-a⸣-[še₃] | |
| 10' | kug pad-⸢ra₂-bi⸣ | |
| 11' | ba-an-⸢tum₂⸣-mu | |
| 12' | 7(aš) [še gur] | |
| 13' | šag₄ kišib 2(u) še ⸢gur⸣ | |
| 14' | mu-DU | |
| 15' | {m}e₂-lu₂-ti | |
| 16' | {m}lu₂-{d}inana-ra | |
| 17' | lu₂-ki-inim-ma | |
| 18' | itud-bi mu-bi | |
| 19' | [n] ⸢še⸣ [gur] | |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | [bi₂-ib-tah]-⸢e⸣ | |
| 2' | 9(aš) še gur | |
| 3' | ⸢maš₂⸣ 1(aš) gur | |
| 4' | 1(barig) 4(ban₂) še-ta-am₃ | |
| 5' | [sig₉]-ge₄-de₃ | |
| 6' | [ki lugal]-niŋ₂-zu-ta | |
| 7' | {[m}lugal]-⸢ibila⸣-ke₄ | |
| 8' | [šu ba-an]-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 9' | [še u₃] maš₂-bi | |
| 10' | [šag₄ lugal]-niŋ₂-zu | |
| 11' | [x]-x | |
| 12' | [kišib] ki lugal-niŋ₂-zu | |
| 13' | [u₂]-gu ba-an-de₂ | |
| 14' | ⸢gibil⸣-bi-eš-a | |
| 15' | [gaba]-ri | |
| 16' | [kišib]-a-ni | |
| 17' | [in-na-an]-⸢tak₄⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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