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CBS 06815 (P230733)

Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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DesignationCBS 06815
IDP230733
Museum no.CBS 06815
CollectionPenn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
LanguageSumerian
PeriodOld Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
GenreBusiness / Contracts
Find spotNippur (mod. Nuffar)
Coordinates32.1271, 45.2300

English translation

By ORACC project obmc · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse Column i [0:2] o i 1'o i 1'–o i 2'2'Apil-ilī[šu] rece[ived from PN tot gur of barley];
Obverse Column i [2:4] o i 3'3'–o i 4'4'he will measure it in the third [month at the quay of] Nippur.
Obverse Column i [4:7] o i 5'5'–o i 7'7'If in the [third month he will not measure it] at [the quay of Nippur ...]

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o i
1'{[m]}⸢a⸣-pil₂-i₃-li₂-[šu]
2'[šu] ba-an-⸢ti⸣
3'{[iti]}šeg₁₂-a-ka
4'[kar] ⸢nibru⸣{ki}ka ⸢al⸣-aŋ₂-e
5'⸢tukum⸣-bi
6'{[iti}šeg₁₂]-a-ka
7'[kar nibru{ki]}⸢ka⸣

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