UM 55-21-333 (P230711)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UM 55-21-333 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230711 |
| Museum no. | UM 55-21-333 |
| 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 [0:5] o i 1'o 1'–o i 5'5' | [...], any heirs of [Urkuzu] and Nin-heŋal, how many there may be, shall not raise a claim concerning his status as a slave. |
| Obverse Column i [5:8] o i 6'6'–o i 8'8' | Urkuzu, the father, while alive, and Nin-heŋal, (his) wife, while alive, have sworn (this) by the name of the king. |
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 | ⸢x-DAG⸣ | |
| 2 | ⸢x-NUN⸣ | |
| 3 | ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 4 | [...]-lu | |
| 5 | [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 6 | [...] | |
| 7 | DI ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 8 | [...] | |
| r ii' | ||
| 1 | nir-mu₂ | |
| 2 | nir-mu₂ | |
| 3 | nir ŋal₂ | |
| 4 | nir-nir | |
| 5 | nir-nir | |
| 6 | [nir]-nir | |
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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