CBS 01206 (P230618)
Lexical, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CBS 01206 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230618 |
| Museum no. | CBS 01206 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Lexical |
| Find spot | Nippur |
| 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 [0:2] o i' 1'o i 1'–o i' 2'2' | ... he has given to her [one zibu-millstone] provided [with a muller]. |
| Obverse Column i [2:5] o i' 3'3'–o i' 5'5' | As long as Lugal-amaru lives she (Ištar-ennam) will serve him. |
| Obverse Column i [5:11] o i' 6'6'–o i' 11'11' | After Lugal-amaru will have died, any heirs of Lugal-amaru, how many there may be, shall not raise a claim concerning her status as a slave. |
| Obverse Column i [11:14] o i' 12'12'–o i' 14'14' | Lugal-amaru, the father, while alive, has sworn (this) by the name of the king. |
| Obverse Column i [14:18] o i' 15'15'–o i' 18'18' | [A] woman, na[med Ummi]-waqrat, [the slave of ...] |
| Obverse Column ii [0:3] o ii' 1'o ii 1'–o ii' 3'3' | ... Iddin-[...] has brought in. |
| Obverse Column ii [3:8] o ii' 4'4'–o ii' 8'8' | If Iddin-[...] says to Ahatum, her husband(!), "You are not my husband!", |
| Obverse Column ii [8:10] o ii' 9'9'–o ii' 10'10' | they will shave (her) head (and) will sell her. |
| Obverse Column ii [10:15] o ii' 11'11'–o ii' 15'15' | And (if) Aha[tum says to Iddin-..., his] wife(!), "[You are not] my wife!", ... |
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' | 1 {na₄}kinkin zi-bi šu] ⸢sig₁₀⸣-ga | |
| 2' | [in]-⸢na⸣-an-šum₂ | |
| 3' | ⸢en⸣-na lugal-a-ma-ru | |
| 4' | al-til₃-la-aš | |
| 5' | ⸢igi⸣-ni-še₃ i₃-gub-bu | |
| 6' | ⸢egir⸣ lugal-a-ma:ru | |
| 7' | ba-uš₂-a-ta | |
| 8' | ⸢ibila⸣ lugal-a-ma-ru | |
| 9' | [a]-⸢na⸣ me-a-bi | |
| 10' | [nam]-geme₂-ni-še₃ | |
| 11' | ⸢inim⸣ nu-um-ŋa₂-ŋa₂-a | |
| 12' | {m}lugal-a-ma-ru | |
| 13' | ad-da til₃-la | |
| 14' | mu lugal-la-bi in-pad₃ | |
| 15' | 1 ⸢saŋ⸣-munus | |
| 16' | [um-mi]-wa-aq-ra-at | |
| 17' | [mu]-⸢ni⸣-im | |
| 18' | [geme₂ x]-⸢x-x⸣-[x] | |
| o ii' | ||
| 1' | da ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | i-din-{[d}...] | |
| 3' | in-na-ni-⸢in⸣-[kur₉] | |
| 4' | tukum-[bi] | |
| 5' | i-din-{⸢d⸣}[...] | |
| 6' | a-ha-tum dam-⸢a⸣-[ni-ra] | |
| 7' | dam-ŋu₁₀ nu-me-⸢en⸣ | |
| 8' | ba-na-an-[dug₄] | |
| 9' | umbin al-TAR-[re-ne] | |
| 10' | kug-še₃ ba-ra-[...] | |
| 11' | u₃ a-ha-[tum i-din-...] | |
| 12' | dam-a-[ni-ra] | |
| 13' | dam-ŋu₁₀ [nu-me-en] | |
| 14' | ba-⸢na⸣-[an-dug₄] | |
| 15' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
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
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