N 6231 (P230698)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 6231 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230698 |
| Museum no. | N 6231 |
| 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 [0:5] r i 1'r i 1'–r i 5'5' | [tot gur of barley ... PN₂] received from [PN₁]; to be returned in the third month. |
| Reverse Column i [5:6] r i 6'6'–r i 6'6' | 7 gur of barley, |
| Reverse Column i [6:7] r i 7'7'–r i 7'7' | without interest, |
| Reverse Column i [7:10] r i 8'8'–r i 10'10' | PN received from Lugal-niŋzu |
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' | ⸢ki x⸣-[...] | |
| 2' | {m}⸢x-x⸣-[...] | |
| 3' | šu ba-an-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 4' | {iti}šeg₁₂-a-ka | |
| 5' | gur-ru-dam | |
| 6' | 7(aš) še gur | |
| 7' | maš₂ nu-ub-tuku | |
| 8' | ki lugal-niŋ₂-zu-ta | |
| 9' | {m}x-zi-ia-x | |
| 10' | ⸢šu ba⸣-an-⸢ti⸣ | |
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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