PBS 08/2, 150 (P262209)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | PBS 08/2, 150 |
|---|---|
| ID | P262209 |
| Museum no. | CBS 07176 |
| 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 1/2 shekels and 18 grains (= 288 grains) of silver, |
| obverse 2 | without interest, |
| obverse 3 | Mār-erṣetim |
| obverse 4 | owes to Šamaš. |
| obverse 5 | (If) he is alive |
| obverse 6 | and in good health |
| reverse 1 | the heart of Šamaš |
| reverse 2 | will be satisfied. |
| reverse 3 | Before Nanna; |
| reverse 4 | before Inanna; |
| reverse 5 | before Nūr-Nin-šubur, the scribe. |
| reverse 6 | The month of Dumuzi, the day 30 |
| reverse 7 | the year in which (Samsu-iluna) destroyed the walls of Ur and Uruk. |
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(disz) 1/2(disz) gin2 1(u) 8(disz) sze ku3-babbar | |
| 2 | masz2 nu-ub-tuku | |
| 3 | ugu dumu-ki | |
| 4 | {d}utu in-tuku | |
| 5 | nam-ti-la-ni-sze3 | |
| 6 | u3 silim-ma-ni-sze3 | |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | sza3 {d}utu | |
| 2 | bi2-ib-du10-ge | |
| 3 | igi {d}nanna | |
| 4 | igi {d}inanna | |
| 5 | igi nu-ur2-{d}nin-szubur dub-sar | |
| 6 | iti szu-numun-a u4 3(u)-[kam] | |
| 7 | mu bad3 uri2{ki} unu{ki}-ga mu-un-gul-la | |
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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