N 2679 (P230722)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 2679 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230722 |
| Museum no. | N 2679 |
| 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 i 1'–o i' 5'5' | ... Lu-Ningirgilu has leased in tenancy [from PN, a field ...], for [three years], to be opened ... |
| Obverse Column ii [0:8] o ii' 1'o ii 1'–o ii' 8'8' | Enlil-massu h[as leased] in tenancy from Lu-Ninurta, [a field ...], in [the field ...], bordering (the field) of Lu[lal], (which is) the field of Lu-Ninurta, at (the rate) of one-third (of the annual yield) ... |
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' | ⸢lu₂-{d}nin-gir⸣-gi₄-lu-ke₄ | |
| 2' | ⸢nam⸣-apin-la₂-la₂ | |
| 3' | [a]-⸢šag₄⸣ ŋal₂ tak₄-tak₄-de₃ | |
| 4' | [mu 3-kam-ma-še₃ | |
| 5' | [ib₂-ta]-⸢an⸣-e₃ | |
| 6' | [...] BI | |
| o ii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢šag₄⸣ [a-šag₄] ⸢x-x⸣-[x] | |
| 2' | us₂-a-DU {d}⸢lu₂⸣-[lal₃] | |
| 3' | a-šag₄ lu₂-{d}nin-urta | |
| 4' | ki lu₂-{d}nin-urta-ta | |
| 5' | {d}en-lil₂-mas-su-ke₄ | |
| 6' | nam-apin-la₂-la₂ | |
| 7' | igi 3 ⸢ŋal₂⸣-[še₃] | |
| 8' | ⸢ib₂⸣-[ta-an-e₃] | |
Sources & licences
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