CBS 06711 (P230793)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CBS 06711 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230793 |
| Museum no. | CBS 06711 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse Column i [0:1] r i' 1'r i 1'–r i' 1'r i 1' | 1 eše (= 21600 m²) of barley stubble(?) field, |
| Reverse Column i [1:2] r i' 2'2'–r i' 2'2' | 3 iku (= 10800 m²) of ... field, |
| Reverse Column i [2:4] r i' 3'3'–r i' 4'4' | its field ... (is) within the northern field, |
| Reverse Column i [4:6] r i' 5'5'–r i' 6'6' | (its) flank bordering the canal ..., |
| Reverse Column i [6:7] r i' 7'7'–r i' 7'7' | (which is) the field of Enlil-heŋal |
| Reverse Column i [7:10] r i' 8'8'–r i' 10'10' | Mannum-māhiršu bought from Enlil-heŋal; |
| Reverse Column i [10:13] r i' 11'11'–r i' 13'13' | he paid to him 16 shekels of silver as its full price ... |
| Reverse Column ii [0:2] r ii' 1'r ii 1'–r ii' 2'2' | ... [he paid to him tot sil]ver [as its full price]; |
| Reverse Column ii [2:8] r ii' 3'3'–r ii' 8'8' | in the fu[ture] PN and [his] heirs, as many as there will be, will not raise a claim concerning this field; |
| Reverse Column ii [8:10] r ii' 9'9'–r ii' 10'10' | he has sworn by the name of the king. |
| Reverse Column ii [9:12] r ii' 10'10'–r ii' 12'12' | [tot] barley stubble(?) field ... |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r i' | ||
| 1' | 1(eše₃) gana₂ a-šag₄ šub₅ še | |
| 2' | 3(iku) gana₂ a-šag₄ ki u₂ x | |
| 3' | x-x a-šag₄-ga-bi | |
| 4' | šag₄ a-šag₄ igi-nim | |
| 5' | us₂-a-DU | |
| 6' | {id₂}(ŊAR.AN.X.[X]) | |
| 7' | a-šag₄ {d}en-lil₂-he₂-ŋal₂ | |
| 8' | ki {d}en-lil₂-he₂-ŋal₂-⸢ta⸣ | |
| 9' | {m}ma-an-nu-um-ma-⸢hir⸣-[šu] | |
| 10' | in-ši-in-sa₁₀ | |
| 11' | sam₂ til-la-bi-še₃ | |
| 12' | 16 giŋ₄ kug-[babbar] | |
| 13' | in-na-an-⸢la₂⸣ | |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | [... kug]-⸢babbar⸣ | |
| 2' | [in-na-an]-⸢la₂⸣ | |
| 3' | [ud] kur₂-še₃ | |
| 4' | {m}x-x-x-x | |
| 5' | ⸢u₃⸣ ibila-a-[ni] | |
| 6' | ⸢a-na me⸣-a-bi | |
| 7' | a-šag₄-bi-še₃ | |
| 8' | inim nu-um-ŋa₂-ŋa₂-a | |
| 9' | ⸢mu⸣ lugal-bi in-pad₃ | |
| 10' | [...] ⸢a-šag₄ šub₅ še⸣ | |
| 11' | [...] ⸢x a⸣ | |
| 12' | [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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