PBS 13, 39 (P230625)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | PBS 13, 39 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230625 |
| Museum no. | CBS 14055 |
| 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 Legrain, Leon · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse Column i [1:2] o i' 2'2'–o i' 2'2' | ..., as [its interest] |
| Obverse Column i [2:3] o i' 3'3'–o i' 3'3' | the woman (named) Šāt-Ištar, |
| Obverse Column i [3:4] o i' 4'4'–o i' 4'4' | (who is) the slave-girl of Ipiq-Ištar, |
| Obverse Column i [4:6] o i' 5'5'–o i' 6'6' | will serve as a pledge |
| Obverse Column i [6:8] o i' 7'7'–o i' 8'8' | If the slave-girl stops working, |
| Obverse Column i [8:11] o i' 9'9'–o i' 11'11' | [he will measure] 10 sila of barley per [day] for her hire. |
| Obverse Column ii [0:3] o ii' 1'o ii 1'–o ii' 3'3' | If PN (= the slave) stops working, |
| Obverse Column ii [3:6] o ii' 4'4'–o ii' 6'6' | he (the master) will measure 10 sila of barley per day for his hire. |
| Obverse Column ii [6:8] o ii' 7'7'–o ii' 8'8' | When the silver is returned, he may take back his slave. |
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' | [...] x | |
| 2' | [maš₂-bi]-še₃ | |
| 3' | {m}ša-at-iš₈-tar₂ saŋ-munus | |
| 4' | geme₂ i-pi₂-iq-iš₈-tar₂ | |
| 5' | kug-ta gub-ba-aš | |
| 6' | ib₂-ta-gub | |
| 7' | tukum-bi | |
| 8' | geme₂ ŋa₂-la ba-an-dag | |
| 9' | [ud] 1-še₃ a₂-ni-⸢še₃⸣ | |
| 10' | 1(ban₂) še-⸢ta⸣-[am₃] | |
| 11' | [al-aŋ₂-e] | |
| o ii' | ||
| 1' | tukum-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 2' | {m}{d}[...] | |
| 3' | ŋa₂-la ba-⸢an⸣-[dag] | |
| 4' | ud 1-še₃ a₂-ni-še₃ | |
| 5' | 1(ban₂) še-ta-am₃ | |
| 6' | al-aŋ₂-e | |
| 7' | kug-babbar gur-da-bi | |
| 8' | arad₂-da-ni ba-an-tum₃ | |
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
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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