Education in the Earliest Schools 178 (P273878)
School, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Education in the Earliest Schools 178 |
|---|---|
| ID | P273878 |
| Museum no. | PARS 12/01, 151 |
| Collection | Cotsen Collection of Cuneiform Tablets, Special Collections, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | School |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
English translation
By Wilson, Mark · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | 15 gur of barley |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | (and) 5 shekels of silver, |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | - the barley bears no interest |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | (whereas) the silver bears interest - |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55–o 88 | Nanna-gurru-x and Sîn-musilim received them from Diŋirra; |
| Obverse [8:12] o 99–o 1212 | he (the creditor) will take them from the financially sound and legally responsible one in the third month. |
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 | ||
| 1 | 1(u) 5(aš) gur še | |
| 2 | 5 giŋ₄ kug-babbar | |
| 3 | še maš₂-bi nu-tuku | |
| 4 | kug-bi in-tuku | |
| 5 | ki diŋir-ra-ta | |
| 6 | {m}{d}nanna-gur-ru-x | |
| 7 | u₃ {d}suen-mu-silim | |
| 8 | šu ba-an-ti-meš | |
| 9 | {iti}šeg₁₂-a | |
| 10 | ki lu₂ silim-ma-ta | |
| 11 | [u₃] ⸢ki⸣ lu₂ gi-na-ta | |
| 12 | [šu] ⸢ba⸣-ab-te-⸢ŋa₂⸣ | |
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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