N 4783 (P230780)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 4783 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230780 |
| Museum no. | N 4783 |
| 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 [0:1] ii' 1'ii 1'–ii' 1'ii 1' | ... [next to the house of Lugir]gi[lu], |
| Obverse Column ii [1:3] ii' 2'2'–ii' 3'3' | the house of Amarabzu, son of Lugal-ezen, |
| Obverse Column ii [3:6] ii' 4'4'–ii' 6'6' | Diŋirdanumea bought from Amarabzu, |
| Obverse Column ii [6:9] ii' 7'7'–ii' 9'9' | he [weighed out] 48 shekels of silver as its full price. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| ii' | ||
| 1' | [da e₂ lu₂-gir]-⸢gi₄-lu⸣ | |
| 2' | e₂ amar-abzu | |
| 3' | dumu lugal-ezen | |
| 4' | ki amar-abzu-ta | |
| 5' | {m}diŋir-da-nu-me-a-ke₄ | |
| 6' | in-ši-in-sa₁₀ | |
| 7' | sam₂ til-la-bi-še₃ | |
| 8' | 2/3 ma-na 8 giŋ₄ kug-babbar | |
| 9' | [in-na]-⸢an⸣-[la₂] | |
Sources & licences
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