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CBS 10288 (P230751)

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

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DesignationCBS 10288
IDP230751
Museum no.CBS 10288
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' 2'2'–o i' 3'3'[PN] received;
Obverse Column i [2:5] o i' 4'4'–o i' 6'6'[the barley with] its interest are to be returned at [the delivery] of the harvest.
Obverse Column i [5:7] o i' 7'7'–o i' 8'8'(Its) witnesses, [its month], its year.
Obverse Column ii [0:1] o ii' 1'o ii 1'–o ii' 1'o ii 1'[PN] received;
Obverse Column ii [1:3] o ii' 2'2'–o ii' 3'3'to be returned at its due-time.
Obverse Column ii [3:6] o ii' 4'4'–o ii' 6'6'If at its due-time he has not returned it,
Obverse Column ii [6:8] o ii' 7'7'–o ii' 8'8'the barley (and its) interest are to be paid.
Obverse Column ii [7:9] o ii' 8'8'–o ii' 9'9'3 gur 2 barig 3 ban (= 450 sila) of barley, its interest ...

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'
2'[...]-ke₄
3'[šu ba]-⸢an⸣-ti
4'[mu-DU ud] ⸢buru₁₄⸣-ka
5'[še u₃] ⸢maš₂⸣-bi
6'[gur]-⸢ru⸣-dam
7'[lu₂-ki]-⸢inim⸣-ma
8'[itud-bi] ⸢mu⸣-bi
o ii'
1'šu ⸢ba-an⸣-[ti]
2'ki uludin-⸢bi⸣-[še₃]
3'gur-ru-dam
4'tukum-bi
5'ki uludin-bi-še₃
6'la-ba-an-gur
7'še maš₂ ŋa₂-ŋa₂-dam
8'3(aš) 2(barig) 3(ban₂) še ⸢gur⸣
9'maš₂-bi [...]
10'⸢x⸣ [...]

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