CBS 11985 (P230758)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CBS 11985 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230758 |
| Museum no. | CBS 11985 |
| 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 ii [0:4] o ii 1'1'–o ii 4'4' | ... PN has received. |
| Obverse Column ii [4:7] o ii 5'5'–o ii 7'7' | The merchant will take his share from the capital and its profits. |
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' | [u₃ a₂-tuku]-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 2' | [dam-gar₃]-e | |
| 3' | [igi-te]-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 4' | [šu ba-ab-te]-⸢ŋa₂⸣ | |
| o ii | ||
| 1' | {[m]}⸢x-x⸣-[x] | |
| 2' | šu ba-an-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 3' | saŋ niŋ₂-gur₁₁-ra | |
| 4' | u₃ a₂-tuku-bi | |
| 5' | dam-gar₃-e | |
| 6' | igi-te-ni | |
| 7' | šu ba-ab-te-ŋa₂ | |
| 8' | [x]-⸢x⸣-a | |
| 9' | [...]-⸢x⸣ | |
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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