PBS 08/2, 139 (P262158)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | PBS 08/2, 139 |
|---|---|
| ID | P262158 |
| Museum no. | CBS 07119 |
| 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 Guidi, Carlo · Via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI (reuse with citation)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| obverse 1 | 1 kor (and) 1 pānum of barley |
| obverse 2 | bearing an interest, |
| obverse 3 | from Nabi-šamaš |
| obverse 4 | Mašum and Erištum his daughter |
| obverse 5 | have received. |
| obverse 6 | At the delivery of the harvest |
| obverse 7 | the barley with (lit. and) its interest |
| reverse 1 | they will return. |
| reverse 2 | Before Ennugi-abī; |
| reverse 3 | before I(d)din-ilum. |
| reverse 4 | The month of Tašrītum, the day 21 |
| reverse 5 | (of) the year (in which Samsu-iluna the king dedicated to Marduk) a brillantly weapon-emblem (covered with) silver and gold. |
| obverse 1 | 1 kor (and) 1 pānum of barley |
| obverse 2 | bearing an interest, |
| obverse 3 | from Nabi-šamaš |
| obverse 4 | Mašum |
| obverse 5 | and Erištum |
| obverse 6 | have received. |
| obverse 7 | At the delivery of the harvest |
| obverse 8 | the barley with its interest |
| obverse 9 | they will return. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | 1(asz) 1(barig) sze gur | |
| 2 | masz2 in-tuku | |
| 3 | ki na-bi-{d}utu | |
| 4 | {disz}ma-szum u3 e-ri-isz-tum dumu-munus-ni | |
| 5 | szu ba-an-ti-<esz> | |
| 6 | mu-kux(DU) u4 buru14-ka | |
| 7 | sze u3 masz2-bi | |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | gur-ru-dam | |
| 2 | igi {d}en-nu-gi4-a-bi | |
| 3 | igi i-din-dingir | |
| 4 | iti du6-ku3 u4 2(u) 1(disz)-kam | |
| 5 | mu {gesz}tukul szu-nir nig2 babbar-ra ku3-babbar ku3-sig17# | |
| obverse | ||
| 1 | 1(asz) [1(barig)] sze gur | |
| 2 | masz2 in-tuku | |
| 3 | ki na-bi-{d}utu | |
| 4 | {disz}ma-szum | |
| 5 | u3 e-ri-isz-tum | |
| 6 | szu ba-an-ti-<esz> | |
| 7 | mu-kux(DU) u4 buru14-ka# | |
| 8 | sze# u3 masz2-[bi] | |
| 9 | gur#-ru#-[dam] | |
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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