UM 29-16-346 (P230637)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UM 29-16-346 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230637 |
| Museum no. | UM 29-16-346 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1'o 1'–o 4'4' | ... he will deduct it from the commercial journey ... the heirs of Ennam will divide it. |
| Obverse [4:11] o 5'5'– | In the future Kug-Enlila, son of Enlil-nīšu (will not say) 'You are not my wife" (and) will establish the freedom (from commercial debts). |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [He has sworn it by the na]me of the k[ing]. |
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 | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣-ne-ne mu-na-⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | kaskal-ta an-zig₃-ge₂ | |
| 3' | ibila {m}⸢en⸣-nam | |
| 4' | i₃-ba-e-ne | |
| 5' | ⸢ud⸣ kur₂-še₃ | |
| 6' | dam-ŋu₁₀ nu-me-en | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₃ ama-⸢ar⸣-[gi₄] | |
| 2 | mu-un-na-⸢ŋar-ra⸣ | |
| 3 | {m}kug-{d}en-⸢lil₂⸣-la₂ | |
| 4 | dumu {d}en-lil₂-ni-šu | |
| 5 | ⸢mu lugal⸣-[bi in]-⸢pad₃⸣ | |
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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