UM 55-21-441 (P230713)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UM 55-21-441 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230713 |
| Museum no. | UM 55-21-441 |
| 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 ii [0:2] o ii' 1'1'–o ii' 2'2' | ...he has sworn by the name of the king. |
| Obverse Column ii [1:2] o ii' 2'2'–o ii' 2'2' | 5 gur of barley, |
| Obverse Column ii [2:3] o ii' 3'3'–o ii' 3'3' | as an ešdea loan, |
| Obverse Column ii [3:6] o ii' 4'4'–o ii' 6'6' | Ur-Šubula received from Ilum-bāni; |
| Obverse Column ii [6:8] o ii' 7'7'–o ii' 8'8' | in the fifth month he will measure the barley,... |
| Reverse Column i [0:2] r i 1'r i 1'–r i 2'2' | ... (its) witnesses, its month, its year. |
| Reverse Column i [2:6] r i 3'3'–r i 6'6' | Ninurta-palil has deposited (for storage) 20 gur of barley in the grain-store of Lu-Bau; |
| Reverse Column i [6:8] r i 7'7'–r i 8'8' | the monthly rent (for this deposit) is 15 grains of silver. |
| Reverse Column i [8:12] r i 9'9'–r i 12'12' | Ninurta-palil will pay to Lu-Bau 1 shekel of silver per year. |
| Reverse Column i [12:15] r i 13'13'– | [From this] rent ... |
| Reverse Column ii [0:3] r ii 1'r ii 1'–r ii 3'3' | Ilī-amranni will repay to Lu-Ninurta (the barley that has been lost). |
| Reverse Column ii [3:4] r ii 4'4'–r ii 4'4' | 50 gur of barley, |
| Reverse Column ii [4:5] r ii 5'5'–r ii 5'5' | from the grain storehouse, |
| Reverse Column ii [5:7] r ii 6'6'–r ii 7'7' | an interest rate of 100 sila of barley per 1 gur is to be charged, |
| Reverse Column ii [7:10] r ii 8'8'–r ii 10'10' | Lu-diŋira received from Enlil-... |
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 ii' | ||
| 1' | mu lugal-bi ⸢in-pad₃⸣ | |
| 2' | 5(aš) še gur | |
| 3' | eš-de₂-a-še₃ | |
| 4' | ki AN-ba-ni-ta | |
| 5' | {m}ur-{d}šu-bu-la-⸢ke₄⸣ | |
| 6' | šu ba-an-ti | |
| 7' | {iti}NE-NE-⸢ŋar⸣-ra-⸢kam⸣ | |
| 8' | [še]-⸢bi al-aŋ₂-e⸣ | |
| 9' | [...] x | |
| r i | ||
| 1' | [lu₂-ki]-⸢inim⸣-ma | |
| 2' | itud-bi mu-bi | |
| 3' | 2(u) še ⸢gur⸣ | |
| 4' | ⸢esaŋ₂⸣ lu₂-{d}ba-u₂ x | |
| 5' | {m}{d}nin-urta-palil | |
| 6' | ⸢in⸣-sig₉ | |
| 7' | a₂-bi itud-da | |
| 8' | 15 še kug-⸢babbar⸣-ta-am₃ | |
| 9' | mu-a 1 giŋ₄ kug-babbar | |
| 10' | {m}{d}nin-urta-palil-ke₄ | |
| 11' | ⸢lu₂⸣-{d}ba-u₂-ra | |
| 12' | i₃-la₂-[e] | |
| 13' | šag₄ zu₂-keš₂-[bi-ta] | |
| r ii | ||
| 1' | [i₃-li₂]-⸢am-ra-an⸣-ni-e | |
| 2' | {m}lu₂-{d}nin-urta-ra | |
| 3' | bi₂-ib-si-si | |
| 4' | 5(u) še gur | |
| 5' | ⸢ŋanun⸣ guru₇-⸢ta⸣ | |
| 6' | ⸢maš₂⸣ 1(aš) gur 1(barig) 4(ban₂) še-ta-am₃ | |
| 7' | sig₉-ge₄-de₃ | |
| 8' | ki {d}en-lil₂-x-x-ma-ta | |
| 9' | {m}lu₂-diŋir-ra-⸢ke₄⸣ | |
| 10' | ⸢šu⸣ ba-an-⸢ti⸣ | |
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