N 3472 (P230659)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 3472 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230659 |
| Museum no. | N 3472 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | 1/3 mina of silver, |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | for buying barley, |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | for a half-partnership enterprise, |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | Ibbi-Šamaš received from Ubar-Enlil; |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | he (= Ibbi-Šamaš) shall satisfy the creditor |
| Obverse [8:11] o 99– | at his safe arrival from the journey... |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | ... the creditor will not recognize (commercial losses). |
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 | 1/3 ma-na ⸢kug⸣-[babbar] | |
| 2 | še sa₁₀-sa₁₀-⸢de₃⸣ | |
| 3 | nam-tab-ba šu-ri-a | |
| 4 | ki u-bar-{d}en-lil₂-ta | |
| 5 | {m}i-bi-{d}utu-ke₄ | |
| 6 | šu ba-an-ti | |
| 7 | [šag₄ um]-mi-a ⸢al-dug₃-ge⸣ | |
| 8 | [x] ni₂-ta-a-[ni] | |
| 9 | [silim-ma] ⸢kaskal⸣-la-ni-[ta] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [um]-mi-a nu-zu-zu | |
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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