CBS 07971 (P230740)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CBS 07971 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230740 |
| Museum no. | CBS 07971 |
| 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 [0:2] o i' 1'o i 1'–o i' 2'2' | [Iškur-ma]nšum re[ceived from PN₁ tot silver], |
| Obverse Column i [2:6] o i' 3'3'–o i' 6'6' | [as its interest a w]oman, na[med PN₂, (who) is the slave-gi]rl of Iškur-manšum, |
| Obverse Column i [6:9] o i' 7'7'– | he has given as a pledge ... |
| Obverse Column ii [0:2] o ii' 1'o ii 1'–o ii' 2'2' | ... he will measure its [barley]. |
| Obverse Column ii [1:3] o ii' 2'2'–o ii' 3'3' | 7 gur 2 barig 3 ban (= 2250 sila) of barley, as an ešdea-loan, without interest, |
| Obverse Column ii [3:6] o ii' 4'4'–o ii' 6'6' | Lu-Enlila received from Kug-Inana; |
| Obverse Column ii [6:8] o ii' 7'7'–o ii' 8'8' | at the delivery of the harvest (he will return it) according to the ban-measure of 30 sila ... |
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}{d}iškur-ma]-⸢an-šum₂⸣ | |
| 2' | [šu ba-an]-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 3' | [maš₂-bi-še₃ 1 ⸢saŋ⸣-munus | |
| 4' | [...]-⸢x-x⸣ | |
| 5' | [mu]-ni:im | |
| 6' | ⸢geme₂⸣ {d}iškur-ma-an-šum₂ | |
| 7' | ⸢kug-ta⸣ gub-ba-aš | |
| o ii' | ||
| 1' | [še]-⸢bi i₃⸣-aŋ₂-e | |
| 2' | 7(aš) 2(barig) 3(ban₂) še gur | |
| 3' | eš-de₂-a maš₂ nu-ub-tuku | |
| 4' | ki kug-{d}inana-ta | |
| 5' | {m}lu₂-{d}en-lil₂-la₂-ke₄ | |
| 6' | šu ba-an-ti | |
| 7' | mu-DU ud buru₁₄-ka | |
| 8' | {ŋeš}ba-an 3(ban₂)-ta-am₃ | |
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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