UM 29-15-997 (P230635)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UM 29-15-997 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230635 |
| Museum no. | UM 29-15-997 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse Column ii [0:2] r ii' 1'r ii 1'–r ii' 2'2' | ... they will go on a business trip to buy beer. |
| Reverse Column ii [2:6] r ii' 3'3'–r ii' 6'6' | After they will have returned from the business trip (and), upon the safe return from it, the goods purchased(?) will have satisfied the merchant, |
| Reverse Column ii [6:10] r ii' 7'7'–r ii' 10'10' | the two of them will divide equally among themselves the remainder of the silver. |
| Reverse Column iii [0:3] r iii' 1'1'–r iii' 3'3' | Hand of Nuska-nīšu, son of the overseer of the Nuska's temple, the junior scribe. |
| Reverse Column iii [3:5] r iii' 4'4'–r iii' 5'5' | Before Nisaba, my lady: may it please her. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢kaš sa₁₀⸣-[sa₁₀-de₃] | |
| 2' | kaskal-še₃ al-⸢sub₂⸣-[be₂-eš] | |
| 3' | ud kaskal-ta gur-ru-[da] | |
| 4' | silim-ma kaskal-ta sa₁₀-[a] | |
| 5' | šag₄ dam-gar₃-ra | |
| 6' | un-dug₃-ge-eš | |
| 7' | ib₂-tag₄ kug-bi | |
| 8' | min₃-na-ne-ne | |
| 9' | teš₂-a ⸢sig₁₀⸣-[ga-bi] | |
| 10' | i₃-⸢ba⸣-[e-ne] | |
| r iii' | ||
| 1' | šu {d}nuska-ni-šu | |
| 2' | dumu ugula e₂ {d}nuska | |
| 3' | dub-sar-tur | |
| 4' | igi {d}nisaba nin-ŋu₁₀ | |
| 5' | he₂-en-sag₉ | |
| 6' | [...]-⸢x⸣ | |
| 7' | [...]-⸢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
- 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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