N 3653 (P230775)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 3653 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230775 |
| Museum no. | N 3653 |
| 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 [1:5] i' 2'2'–i' 5'5' | PN₂ [receiv]ed from PN₁ [tot] gur of barley; |
| Obverse Column i [5:7] i' 6'6'–i' 7'7' | in the [... month] he will measu[re its barley]. |
| Obverse Column ii [0:4] ii' 1'ii 1'–ii' 4'4' | Lu-[...] received from PN [tot gur of barley]; |
| Obverse Column ii [4:6] ii' 5'5'–ii' 6'6' | in the third month he will measure its barley. |
| Obverse Column ii [6:7] ii' 7'7'–ii' 7'7' | 7? gur of barley ... |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| i' | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [n] še gur | |
| 3' | [ki ...]-ta | |
| 4' | [...]-ke₄ | |
| 5' | [šu ba-an]-ti | |
| 6' | [...]-⸢x⸣-a-ka | |
| 7' | [še-bi al]-⸢aŋ₂⸣-e | |
| ii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | ki [...-ta] | |
| 3' | {m}lu₂-[...] | |
| 4' | šu ba-⸢an⸣-[ti] | |
| 5' | {iti}šeg₁₂-[a-ka] | |
| 6' | še-bi ⸢al⸣-[aŋ₂-e] | |
| 7' | 7 [še gur] | |
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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