UM 29-16-006 (P230636)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UM 29-16-006 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230636 |
| Museum no. | UM 29-16-006 |
| 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 i [0:2] r i 1r i 1–r i 22 | 5 shekels of silver, without interest, |
| Reverse Column i [2:3] r i 33–r i 33 | the silver equals the silver; |
| Reverse Column i [3:4] r i 44–r i 44 | since the silver e[quals] the silver, |
| Reverse Column i [4:6] r i 55–r i 66 | [he will ret]urn one shekel (of silver) a year, |
| Reverse Column i [6:9] r i 77– | [PN₂ has received] from Lu-[...] ... |
| Reverse Column ii [0:2] r ii 1r ii 1–r ii 22 | ... Aba-andasa has received [... from PN]; |
| Reverse Column ii [2:4] r ii 33–r ii 44 | he will pay back that silver in the second month; |
| Reverse Column ii [4:5] r ii 55–r ii 55 | he has promised; |
| Reverse Column ii [5:7] r ii 66–r ii 77 | he has sworn by the name of the king. |
| Reverse Column ii [6:7] r ii 77–r ii 77 | 6 shekels of silver, |
| Reverse Column ii [7:8] r ii 88–r ii 88 | in order to cultivate a field, |
| Reverse Column ii [8:11] r ii 99– | [PN₂ has received] from Lu-[...] ... |
| Reverse Column iii [0:2] r iii 1r iii 1–r iii 22 | ... [an interest rate of ... is to be add]ed, |
| Reverse Column iii [2:4] r iii 33–r iii 44 | [PN₂ has received] from [PN₁] ... |
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 i | ||
| 1 | 5 giŋ₄ kug-⸢babbar⸣ | |
| 2 | maš₂ nu-ub-tuku | |
| 3 | kug kug-da ba-⸢an-da⸣-[sa₂-a] | |
| 4 | mu kug kug-da ⸢ba-an⸣-[da-sa₂-a] | |
| 5 | mu-a 1 giŋ₄-⸢ta⸣-[am₃] | |
| 6 | ⸢ib₂-ta⸣-[su-su-e] | |
| 7 | ki ⸢lu₂⸣-[...-ta] | |
| r ii | ||
| 1 | {m}a-ba-in-da-sa₂-ke₄ | |
| 2 | šu ba-an-ti | |
| 3 | {iti}gud-si-su-ka | |
| 4 | kug-bi i₃-la₂-e | |
| 5 | inim dug₄-ga ba-⸢an-šum₂⸣ | |
| 6 | mu lugal-bi in-pad₃ | |
| 7 | 6 giŋ₄ kug-babbar | |
| 8 | a-šag₄ uru₄{ru}de₃ | |
| 9 | ki ⸢lugal⸣-[ezen-ta] | |
| r iii | ||
| 1 | [maš₂ ...]-⸢ta⸣-am₃ | |
| 2 | [tah-he]-⸢dam⸣ | |
| 3 | [ki ...]-⸢x⸣-ta | |
| 4 | {[m}...]-⸢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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