N 4058 (P230776)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 4058 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230776 |
| Museum no. | N 4058 |
| 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 [0:1] o i 22–o i 22 | [...], a garlic-planted field, |
| Obverse Column i [1:2] o i 33–o i 33 | (its) flank bordering (the field) of Sîn-ašarēdu: |
| Obverse Column i [2:3] o i 44–o i 44 | (it’s) the field of Enlil-nādā, |
| Obverse Column i [3:4] o i 55–o i 55 | from Enlil-nādā |
| Obverse Column i [4:7] o i 66–o i 88 | Iliš-nadi and Ur-Dukuga, as his partner, |
| Obverse Column i [7:9] o i 99–o i 1010 | have leased it in tenancy at (the rate) of one-third (of the annual yield), |
| Obverse Column i [9:11] o i 1111–o i 1212 | 6? shekels of silver, ... |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 2 | a-szag4 egir-sum la2 | |
| 3 | us2#-a-du {d}suen-a-sza-re-ed | |
| 4 | a-sza3 {d}en-lil2-na-du | |
| 5 | ki {d}en-lil-na-du-ta | |
| 6 | i3-li2-isz-na-di | |
| 7 | u3 ur-du6-ku3-ga | |
| 8 | nam-tab-ba-ni SI? [...] | |
| 9 | nam-[x]-KU#? |IGI.GAR|#? [...] | |
| 10 | ib2-ta-an#-[...] | |
| 11 | 4(disz) gin2 [...] | |
| 12 | ku3 ki-a-[...] | |
| reverse col 1 | ||
| 1' | am#-[...] | |
| 2' | [...] | |
| 3' | [...] | |
| 4' | im-[...] | |
| 5' | u2-[...] | |
| reverse col 2 | ||
| 2' | eh [...] | |
| 3' | eh a-szag4-[...] | |
| 4' | eh [...] | |
| 5' | eh nisig# | |
| 6' | eh zi3-da | |
| 7' | eh gesz-ur3-ra | |
| 8' | eh DUN | |
| 9' | nim | |
| 10' | nim# sahar-ra | |
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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