IM 057879 (P230801)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | IM 057879 |
|---|---|
| ID | P230801 |
| Museum no. | IM 057879 |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| 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 [0:3] o i 1'o i 1'–o i 3'3' | [A female slave] named [...], the slave of Damu-galzu, |
| Obverse Column i [3:5] o i 4'4'–o i 5'5' | Damu-galzu, her master, has freed, |
| Obverse Column i [5:6] o i 6'6'–o i 6'6' | he has cleared her forehead, |
| Obverse Column i [6:7] o i 7'7'–o i 7'7' | smashed the pot of her slavery, |
| Obverse Column i [7:9] o i 8'8'–o i 9'9' | (and) [made ouf for her] a document concerning her cleaning. |
| Obverse Column ii [0:3] o ii 1'o ii 1'–o ii 3'3' | After Sîn-... will have died, |
| Obverse Column ii [3:6] o ii 4'4'–o ii 6'6' | each month 60 sila of barley, 6 minas of [wool], 6 sila of oil, |
| Obverse Column ii [6:8] o ii 7'7'–o ii 8'8' | as ration of barley, oil [(and) wool], until Sîn-... |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o i | ||
| 1' | [...] x x | |
| 2' | [...] mu-ni | |
| 3' | ⸢geme₂⸣ {d}da-mu-gal-zu | |
| 4' | {m}{d}da-mu-gal-zu lugal-a-ni | |
| 5' | ama-ar-gi₄-ni in-ŋar | |
| 6' | saŋ-ki-ni in-dadag | |
| 7' | dug nam-geme₂-ni-še₃ in-gaz | |
| 8' | kišib nam-sikil-<la>-ni-še₃ | |
| 9' | [in-na-an-tak₄] | |
| o ii | ||
| 1' | ⸢in⸣-[...] | |
| 2' | egir-ra {d}⸢suen⸣-[...] | |
| 3' | ba-ug₇-a-[ta] | |
| 4' | itud-da 1(barig) ⸢še⸣-[ta] | |
| 5' | 6 ma-na [siki-ta] | |
| 6' | 6 ⸢sila₃⸣ i₃-[ŋeš-ta] | |
| 7' | še-ba i₃-⸢ba⸣ [siki-ba] | |
| 8' | en-na {d}⸢suen⸣-[...] | |
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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