UM 29-13-552 (P230627)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UM 29-13-552 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230627 |
| Museum no. | UM 29-13-552 |
| 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 [0:1] o i' 3'3'–o i' 3'3' | Tot gur of barley, |
| Obverse Column i [1:3] o i' 4'4'–o i' 5'5' | [an interest rate] of 100 sila of barley per [1 gur] is to be charged, |
| Obverse Column i [3:6] o i' 6'6'–o i' 8'8' | ...-Enlila received from Ipiq-Sîn, |
| Obverse Column i [6:9] o i' 9'9'–o i' 11'11' | [the barley with] its [interest] are to be [returned] in the third month. |
| Obverse Column ii [0:3] o ii' 1'o ii 1'–o ii' 3'3' | PN₂ received from PN₁; |
| Obverse Column ii [3:6] o ii' 4'4'–o ii' 6'6' | the barley with [its] interest are to be returned in the third month; |
| Obverse Column ii [6:8] o ii' 7'7'–o ii' 8'8' | its witnesses, its month, its year. |
| Obverse Column ii [8:9] o ii' 9'9'–o ii' 9'9' | 2 gur of barley, |
| Obverse Column ii [9:12] o ii' 10'10'–o ii' 12'12' | without interest, ... |
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' | ||
| 3' | [n] še gur | |
| 4' | [maš₂ 1(aš) ⸢gur⸣ 1(barig) 4(ban₂) še-ta-am₃ | |
| 5' | [sig₉]-ge₄-de₃ | |
| 6' | [ki i]-⸢pi₂⸣-iq-{d}suen-ta | |
| 7' | {[m}x]-x-{d}en-lil₂-la₂-ke₄ | |
| 8' | [šu] ⸢ba⸣-an-ti | |
| 9' | {[iti}šeg₁₂]-a-ka | |
| 10' | [še u₃ maš₂]-bi | |
| 11' | [gur-ru]-⸢dam⸣ | |
| o ii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢ki⸣ [...-ta] | |
| 2' | {m}x-[...] | |
| 3' | šu ba-[an-ti] | |
| 4' | {iti}šeg₁₂-[a-ka] | |
| 5' | še u₃ ⸢maš₂⸣-[bi] | |
| 6' | gur-ru-dam | |
| 7' | lu₂-ki-inim-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 8' | itud-bi mu-bi-im | |
| 9' | 2(aš) še gur | |
| 10' | maš₂ nu-ub-tuku | |
| 11' | [x] x ba-an-x-an-DI | |
| 12' | [...] x x x ba-an-DI | |
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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