UM 29-16-500 (P256988)
Administrative, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UM 29-16-500 |
|---|---|
| ID | P256988 |
| Museum no. | UM 29-16-500 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| 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' | ... [If] he does not pay back that [silver] by the 17th [day] of the [... month], |
| Obverse Column i [3:5] o i 4'4'–o i 5'5' | he will add [an interest rate] of 2 shekels per 10 shekels (of silver). |
| Obverse Column i [5:6] o i 6'6'–o i 6'6' | [Tot] shekels of silver |
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' | {[iti}x]-x-ka | |
| 2' | [ud] 17-kam-ma-ta | |
| 3' | [kug]-bi la-ba-an-la₂ | |
| 4' | [maš₂] 10 giŋ₄ 2 giŋ₄-ta | |
| 5' | [bi₂]-ib-tah-e | |
| 6' | [n] giŋ₄ kug-babbar | |
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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