UM 55-21-328 (P230710)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UM 55-21-328 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230710 |
| Museum no. | UM 55-21-328 |
| 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 [0:3] o i 1'o i 1'–o i 3'3' | PN and Nanna-[...], son of Nanna-manšum, have received [tot gur of barley]: |
| Obverse Column i [3:5] o i 4'4'–o i 5'5' | they will go on a business trip to buy beer. |
| Obverse Column i [5:8] o i 6'6'–o i 8'8' | The two of them ... from the journey ... |
| Obverse Column ii [0:2] o ii 1'o ii 1'–o ii 2'2' | PN₂ has rece[ived from PN₁ tot gur of barley]; |
| Obverse Column ii [2:4] o ii 3'3'–o ii 4'4' | [he will measure] that barley [in] the third month; |
| Obverse Column ii [4:7] o ii 5'5'–o ii 7'7' | if [in the thi]rd month [he will not measure it ...] |
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' | {⸢m}x-x⸣-[x-x] | |
| 2' | u₃ {d}⸢nanna⸣-[x-x] | |
| 3' | dumu {d}⸢nanna⸣-ma-an-šum₂-ke₄ | |
| 4' | šu ba-an-ti-eš | |
| 5' | kaš sa₁₀-sa₁₀-de₃ | |
| 6' | kaskal-še₃ al-sub₂-be₂-eš | |
| 7' | ⸢min₃-na⸣-ne-ne | |
| 8' | x-x-i-din-nam | |
| 9' | ⸢x⸣ kaskal-ta | |
| o ii | ||
| 1' | {m}⸢x⸣-[...] | |
| 2' | šu ba-[an-ti] | |
| 3' | {iti}šeg₁₂-a-[ka] | |
| 4' | še-bi al-[aŋ₂-e] | |
| 5' | ⸢tukum-bi⸣ | |
| 6' | {iti}⸢šeg₁₂⸣-[a-ka] | |
| 7' | ⸢la⸣-[ba-aŋ₂-e] | |
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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