N 5381 (P231335)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 5381 |
|---|---|
| ID | P231335 |
| Museum no. | N 5381 |
| 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 [0:2] o i 1'o i 1'–o i 2'2' | ... [he paid to him] 16 shekels [of silver as its full] price; |
| Obverse Column i [2:6] o i 3'3'–o i 6'6' | in the future En[lil-heŋal] and his heirs, as many as [there will be], will not raise a claim [concerning] this field; |
| Obverse Column i [6:7] o i 7'7'–o i 7'7' | [he has sworn by] the name of the king. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o i | ||
| 1' | ⸢sam₂⸣ [til-la-bi-še₃] | |
| 2' | 16 ⸢giŋ₄⸣ [kug-babbar in-na-an-la₂] | |
| 3' | ud kur₂-⸢še₃⸣ {d}⸢en⸣-[lil₂-he₂-ŋal₂] | |
| 4' | u₃ ibila-ni ⸢a-na⸣ [me-a-bi] | |
| 5' | a-šag₄-⸢bi⸣-[še₃] | |
| 6' | inim nu-ŋa₂-⸢ŋa₂-a⸣ | |
| 7' | ⸢mu lugal⸣-[bi in-pad₃] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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