N 4567 (P230591)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 4567 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230591 |
| Museum no. | N 4567 |
| 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 [0:4] o i 1'o i 1'–o i 4'4' | Iddin-Šakkan, the night-watchman, received (tot. shekels of silver) from [Ali-ilum]; |
| Obverse Column i [4:7] o i 5'5'–o i 7'7' | as its interest a woman, named Amat-[Šakkan], |
| Obverse Column i [7:10] o i 8'8'– | the slave-girl [of Iddin-Šakkan] (will serve as a pledge). |
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' | [... kug]-⸢babbar⸣ | |
| 2' | [ki a-li₂-AN]-⸢ta⸣ | |
| 3' | {m}⸢i-din⸣-{d}šakkan₂ lu₂-gi₆-a-du-du-ke₄ | |
| 4' | šu ba-an-ti | |
| 5' | maš₂-bi-še₃ | |
| 6' | 1 saŋ-munus | |
| 7' | GEME₂-{d}[šakkan₂] ⸢mu⸣-[ni-im] | |
| 8' | ⸢geme₂⸣ [i-din-{d}šakkan₂] | |
Sources & licences
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