CBS 08437 (P230746)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CBS 08437 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230746 |
| Museum no. | CBS 08437 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | A woman, named Ištar-ennam, the slave-girl of Lugal-amaru, |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | he (= Lugal-amaru) has freed; |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | he has cleared her forehead, |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | smashed the pot of her slavery, |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | (and) drawn up for her a document concerning her cleaning. |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | A built-up house plot of 1 sar belonging to his patrimony, |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | one zibu-millstone provided with a muller, |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | one cultic table, |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | one ladder |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | (and) one table |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | he has allotted to her. |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | As long as he (Lugal-amaru) lives, she will serve him. |
| Reverse [7:10] r 88–r 1010 | In the future any heirs of Lugal-amaru, how many there may be, shall not raise a claim against Ištar-ennam [concerning her] status as a slave and her share: |
| Reverse [10:12] r 1111–r 1212 | Lugal-amaru, the father, while alive, has sworn (this) by the name of the king. |
| Reverse [12:13] r 1313–r 1313 | A woman. |
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 | ||
| 1 | 1 saŋ-⸢munus⸣ | |
| 2 | iš₈-tar₂-⸢en-nam⸣ mu-ni-[im] | |
| 3 | geme₂ lugal-⸢a-ma-ru⸣ | |
| 4 | ama-⸢ar-gi₄-ni in-ŋar⸣ | |
| 5 | saŋ-⸢ki-ni⸣ in-dadag | |
| 6 | dug nam-geme₂-ni-še₃ | |
| 7 | in-gaz | |
| 8 | kišib nam-sikil-la-ni-še₃ | |
| 9 | in-na-an-tak₄ | |
| 10 | 1 sar e₂ du₃-a | |
| 11 | ⸢e₂-ad⸣-da-ni-[ka] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 {na₄}kinkin zi-⸢bi šu sig₁₀-ga⸣ | |
| 2 | 1 {ŋeš}banšur-zag-gu-⸢la⸣ | |
| 3 | 1 {ŋeš}kuŋ₅ | |
| 4 | 1 {ŋeš}muru₅(|SAL.UD.EDIN|)za-nu-um | |
| 5 | in-na-an-ba | |
| 6 | ud til₃-la-ni-še₃ | |
| 7 | igi-ni-še₃ i₃-gub-bu | |
| 8 | ud kur₂-še₃ ibila lugal-a-ma-ru | |
| 9 | a-na me-a-bi {f}iš₈-tar₂-en-nam-ra nam-⸢geme₂⸣-[ni-še₃] | |
| 10 | u₃ niŋ₂-ba-ni-še₃ inim nu-un-ŋa₂-[ŋa₂-a] | |
| 11 | {m}lugal-a-ma-ru ad-da til₃-la | |
| 12 | mu lugal-bi in-pad₃ | |
| 13 | 1 saŋ-munus | |
Sources & licences
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