N 4742 (P230676)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 4742 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230676 |
| Museum no. | N 4742 |
| 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' 1'o i 1'–o i' 1'o i 1' | (an interest of...) is charged, |
| Obverse Column i [1:4] o i' 2'2'–o i' 4'4' | ...-Enlila received from ...-Enlila, |
| Obverse Column i [4:8] o i' 5'5'–o i' 8'8' | ... he will measure [the barley]. |
| 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 at the delivery of the harvest. |
| Obverse Column ii [6:8] o ii' 7'7'–o ii' 8'8' | 6 [gur of barley], the 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' | ||
| 1' | [sig₉]-⸢ge₄⸣-de₃ | |
| 2' | [ki x]-{d}en-lil₂-ta | |
| 3' | {[m}x]-{d}en-lil₂-ke₄ | |
| 4' | [šu ba]-⸢an⸣-ti | |
| 5' | [...]-ka | |
| 6' | [...]-x-ra | |
| 7' | [...]-x | |
| 8' | [še] ⸢al-aŋ₂⸣-e | |
| o ii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢ki⸣ [...-ta] | |
| 2' | {m}[...] | |
| 3' | šu ⸢ba⸣-[an-ti] | |
| 4' | mu-DU ud [buru₁₄-ka] | |
| 5' | še u₃ ⸢maš₂⸣-[bi] | |
| 6' | gur-ru-[dam] | |
| 7' | 6(aš) [še gur] | |
| 8' | ⸢maš₂⸣ [...] | |
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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