N 6005 (P230694)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 6005 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230694 |
| Museum no. | N 6005 |
| 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 [2:5] o i 3'3'–o i 5'5' | ... his owner did not let out him from the gate. |
| Obverse Column i [5:8] o i 6'6'–o i 8'8' | If ... stops working ... |
| Reverse Column i [1:6] r i' 2'2'–r i' 6'6' | ... he has left as a pledge a woman named PN. |
| Reverse Column i [6:8] r i' 7'7'–r i' 8'8' | When he gives back the barley, he will take back his slave-girl. |
| Reverse Column ii [0:2] r ii' 1'r ii 1'–r ii' 2'2' | Lu-Ninurta has deposited for storage (tot gur of barley in the house of Ilī-amranni); |
| Reverse Column ii [2:4] r ii' 3'3'–r ii' 4'4' | the monthly rent for this (deposit) is 20 grains of silver. |
| Reverse Column ii [4:8] r ii' 5'5'–r ii' 8'8' | Lu-Ninurta will pay to Ilī-amranni 1 1/3 shekels of silver per year. |
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' | [...]-⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x]-⸢x-x⸣ | |
| 3' | ⸢lugal⸣-a-ni-ir | |
| 4' | abul-ta | |
| 5' | nu-um-ta-e₃ | |
| 6' | tukum-bi | |
| 7' | (TUR.NI.RA) | |
| 8' | ŋa₂-la ba-an-dag | |
| r i' | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | 1 saŋ-[munus] | |
| 3' | {m}a-at-⸢x⸣-[x] | |
| 4' | mu-ni-⸢im⸣ | |
| 5' | ši-pi₂-ir-tum-[še₃] | |
| 6' | ⸢in⸣-na-an-⸢tak₄⸣ | |
| 7' | ud še ba-ab-šum₂-⸢mu⸣ | |
| 8' | geme₂-ni ba-an-tum₃-[mu] | |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | {m}⸢lu₂-{d}nin-urta⸣ | |
| 2' | in-sig₉ | |
| 3' | a₂-bi itud-da | |
| 4' | 20 še kug-babbar-ta-am₃ | |
| 5' | mu-am₃ 1 1/3 ⸢giŋ₄⸣ kug-babbar-ta-am₃ | |
| 6' | {m}lu₂-{d}nin-urta-e | |
| 7' | {m}i₃-li₂-am-ra-an-ni-ra | |
| 8' | ⸢i₃-la₂⸣-[e] | |
Sources & licences
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