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CBS 10395 (P230623)

Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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DesignationCBS 10395
IDP230623
Museum no.CBS 10395
CollectionPenn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
LanguageSumerian
PeriodOld Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
GenreBusiness / Contracts
Find spotNippur (mod. Nuffar)
Coordinates32.1271, 45.2300

English translation

By ORACC project obmc · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse Column i [0:1] o i' 1'o i 1'–o i' 1'o i 1'... since the silver equals the silver,
Obverse Column i [1:3] o i' 2'2'–o i' 3'3'he will return one shekel of silver [a year];
Obverse Column i [3:6] o i' 4'4'–o i' 6'6'PN received from Sîn-rē'ûm:
Obverse Column i [6:8] o i' 7'7'–o i' 8'8'he will pay in full [its silver] within 5 years ...
Obverse Column ii [0:4] o ii' 1'o ii 1'–o ii' 4'4'PN₂ (received) from PN₁ 6 [shekels of silver] - an interest rate [...].

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o i'
1'[mu kug kug]-⸢da⸣ ba-an-⸢da-sa₂⸣-[a]
2'[mu-am₃] 1 giŋ₄-ta-⸢am₃⸣
3'[ib₂]-⸢ta⸣-su-su-e
4'[ki {d}en]-⸢lil₂⸣-sipa-ta
5'{[m}...]-⸢x⸣-la₂-ke₄
6'[šu ba]-⸢an⸣-ti
7'[...]-kam mu 5-kam-ma-⸢še₃⸣
8'[kug-bi] ⸢i₃-til-le⸣
o ii'
1'6 [giŋ₄ kug-babbar]
2'maš₂ [...]
3'ki [...]-ta
4'{m}x-[...]

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