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CT 05, pl. 04-06, BM 022446 (P274785)
Legal, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CT 05, pl. 04-06, BM 022446 |
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| ID | P274785 |
| Museum no. | BM 022446 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
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Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
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| 1 | [_disz] i3-gesz_ a-na me-e ad-di-i-ma _i3-gesz_ it,-bu i-li-ma u3 <<u3>> me-e-szu ha-pi2{pi}-ir [a-na ha-ra-nim ti-bi] le-mu-ut-tim a-na mar-s,i-im qa2-ti i-lu-tim qa2-tum da-[an-na-at] | I gave oil to water, and the oil poured out, and his water was swollen, to the quay of evil to the hand of the god is strong. |
| 2 | _disz i3_ a#-[na szi]-na# ra-ma-an-szu i-zu#-uz a-na ha-ra-nim szu-ub-ta-an i-ne2-[szi-ra] a-na ma-ar-s,i-im e-pe-esz-ma i-ma-a-at | He poured oil on them, his own, and set them up for the festival. He went down to the marshes to do, and he died. |
| 3 | _disz_ i-na qa2-ab-li-a-at _i3-gesz_ tu-ut-ru a-na s,i-it {d}szam-szi u2-s,i-ma i-zi-iz a-na ha-ra-nim e-ep-pu-usz zi-it-tam a-ka-al a-na mar-s,i-im i-ba-al-lu-ut, | a man in the middle of oil he returned to the hand of Šamšī and stood (there). To the harāḫum he shall do. The one-half of the threshing floor to the sick he will live. |
| 4 | _disz_ i-na qa2-ab-li-a-at _i3-gesz_ tu-tu-ru szi-na u2-s,u2-nim-ma isz-te-en ra-bi isz-te-en s,e-he-er asz-ti a-wi-lim zi-ka-ra-am ul-la-ad a-na mar-s,i-im i-ba-al-lu-ut, | “A man in the middle of the oil he turned back. They went out, and one great one, one small one, from the house of a man a zikaram-offering he shall carry out; to the sick he will live. |
| 5 | _disz i3_ sa3-pi-ih-ma ka-sa3-am im-la mar-s,u2-um i-ma-at a-na ha-ra-ni-im um-ma-na-am i-du-ku-ni-im | the oil is sprayed, and the money is paid. The sick man will die. To the harūnum-demon the herdsman shall kill me. |
| 6 | _disz i3_ a-na s,i-it {d}utu-szi-im ip-t,u3-ur-ma _2(disz) tu-tu-ru u2-s,u2-ni {d}utu sza-am-sza-am a-wi-lam a-na na-pi-isz-ti-szu i-ri-isz | oil for the rising of Šamaš he opened, and two turu-vessels he brought. Ṣubu the mountain of a man for his life he dedicated it. |
| 7 | _disz i3_ a-na s,i-it {d}utu-szi-im _4(disz)_ tu-tu-ru u2-s,u2-ni _ku3-babbar {d}utu_ la-bi-ru e-li a-wi-lim i-ba-asz-szi | oil for the rising of Šamaš-šīm 4 turu he brought. The old silver of Utu there is against the man. |
| 8 | _disz i3_ a-na s,i-it {d}utu-szi-im ip-t,u3-ur-ma _5(disz)_ tu-tu-ru u2-s,u2-ni _ku3-babbar {d}suen_ la-bi-ru e-li a-wi-lim i-ba-asz-szi | oil to Šamaš-šīm he opened, and 5 turu-vessels he brought. Silver of Sîn the old one above the man there is. |
| 9 | _disz i3_ a-na s,i-it {d}utu-szi-im ip-t,u3-ur-ma _6(disz)_ tu-tu-ru u2-s,u2-ni ma-an-za-az ma-al-ki sza dingir-mah a-na ma-ka-li | oil for the extispicy of Šamaš he opened, and 6 tuturu-vessels he brought out, he set up a stand. The pedestal of Ilī-maḫ for the banquet |
| 10 | _disz i3_ it,-bu-u2-ma a-na ha-al-li-ia i-te-li-a-am s,i-bi-it dingir-mah | he poured oil, and to my district he went up, the ṣibītu-priestess of Ili-mah |
| 11 | _disz i3_ u2-ru-uq s,i-bi-it {d}isz-ha-ra | oil of the urūqu-vessel, belonging to Išhara, |
| 12 | _disz i3_ a-na ha-al-li-ia szu-ul-ma-am id-di-a-am ma-<an>-za-az i-li a-wi-lim | the oil to my district well-being he gave me, I can stand. The god of the man |
| 13 | _disz i3_ i-mi-tam u3 szu-me-lam i-ta-s,i ma-an-za-az {d}suen u3 {d}utu | oil of imittam and šumēlam he brought out, the throne of Sîn and Šamaše |
| 14 | _disz i3_ a-na s,i-it {d}utu-szi-im ip-t,u3-ur-ma _7(disz) tu-tu-ru u2-s,u2-ni ma-an-za-az ku-bi a-na ma-AL-KI-im | oil for the rising of Šamaš he opened, and seven tuturu-vessels he brought out, a kubi-bowl for the ... |
| 15 | _disz i3_ a-na s,i-it {d}utu-szi-im ip-t,u3-ur-ma _2(disz) tu-tu-ru a-na i-mi-it-tim _2(disz) tu-tu-ru a-na szu-me-lim u2-s,u2-nim ma-an-za-az {d}masz-tab-ba | oil for the rising of Šamaš he opened, and 2 tuturu-vessels for the imittu-votary 2 turus to the Sumerian he brought out. Manzaz-Ninurta |
| 16 | _disz i3_ i-mi-it-tam u3 _a2-gub3_ qa2-ar-na-szu ha-as-ra asz-sza-at a-wi-lim us,-s,i | oil, imittam-soapwort, and agub-vessel of his head, aššātu-disease, the wife of a man, flee, |
| 17 | _disz i3_ a-na s,i-it {d}utu-szi szu-lu-um-szu it-ta-at-ra-ak mar-s,um i-ma-a-at | oil for the rising of Šamaš he has poured out. A sick person will die. |
| 18 | _disz i3_ a-na _2(disz)_-szu ra-ma-an-szu i-zu-uz mar-s,um i-ma-at a-na ha-ra-ni-im um-ma-nu-um u2-ul i-tu-ra-am | oil for two times his own he weighed out; a sick person he saw to a caravan the herdsman did not return. |
| 19 | _disz i3_ a-na s,i-it {d}utu-szi isz-ta-la-at, mar-s,um i-ma-a-at | oil for the rising of Šamaš he weighed out; a sick person will die. |
| 20 | _disz i3_ i-mi-it-ti ka-si2-im is,-ba-at mar-s,um i-ba-lu-ut, | (If) he drinks oil from the imittu-vessel of kasû-tamarind: the sick man will recover. |
| 21 | _disz i3_ szu-me-el ka-si2-im is,-ba-at mar-s,um i-ba-lu-ut, | he seized the oil of šumēl-kasim, the sick man will recover. |
| 22 | _disz i3_ sa-am sza-mu-um i-za-nu-nu-un | oil of the same price they shall give. |
| 23 | _disz i3_ a-na s,i-it {d}utu-szi ne2-ke-em-tam id-di-a-am mar-s,um i-ba-lu-ut, a-na _kaskal_ um-ma-ni _lu2-kur2_ i-da-a-ak | oil for the rising of Šamaš a ritual assemblage he gave, a sick person he shall live, to the campaign of the commander-in-chief the enemy shall kill. |
| 24 | _disz i3_ a-na szu-me-lim ne2-ke-em-tam id-di-a-am mar-s,um i-ma-a-at a-na _{gesz}tukul dingir kur2_ um-ma-nam i-du-ka-am | the oil to Šumēlim the ne’emtam he gave. A sick person he saw to the weapon of a foreign god he shall kill. |
| 25 | _disz i3_ hu-ur-hu-ma-tam id-di-a-am mar-s,um i-ma-a-at | He gave me ḫūru-oil and he will recover. |
| 26 | _disz i3_ a-na _4(disz)_-szu ra-ma-an-szu i-zu-uz du-ri um-ma-ni-ia na-ak-ri i-da-a-ak | oil for 4 times its value he will weigh out. The enemy will kill my army. |
| 27 | _disz-i3_ a-na s,i-it {d}utu-szi <tu-tu-ru> u2-s,i-ma ki-bi-ir _i3-gesz_ is,-ba-at a-na mar-s,i-im i-ba-lu-ut, a-<na> _kaskal lu2-kur2_ a-da-ak | Adad to the rising of Šamaš returned, and he grasped the base of the oil. To the grave he lived, and to the enemy's road I went. |
| 28 | _disz-i3_ a-na i-pi i-tu-ur2 mar-s,u2 i-ma-at i-na sza-ni na-di-ia ik-ta-s,a-ar lu mar-s,um i-ba-lu-ut, | “If a man has turned into a hole, a sick person will die, in the same place of my inheritance he will be kept alive, may he be sick. |
| 29 | _disz i3_ me-e-szu isz-ta-da-ad ma-mi-it er-s,e-tim a-wi-lam s,a-ab-ta-at | the oil of his water has been poured out; the man is captured in the netherworld. |
| 30 | _disz i3_ <i-na> sza-ni-im na-de-ia me-e-szu u2-ta-asz-szi-ir ma-mi-it er-s,e-tim a-wi-lam <u2-ul> s,a-ab-ta-at | If oil in another place my nadīya-offerings his water he shall remove, the man of the netherworld will not be captured. |
| 31 | _disz i3_ ir-pi-isz-ma a-na qa2-ab-li-a-at me-e-szu ka-ka-ba-am id-di-a-am s,i-bi-it {d}utu | oil he poured out, and into the middle of his water a libation bowl he gave. The emblem of Šamaš |
| 32 | _disz i3_ me-e i-na na-de-ka it,-bu-u2-ma i-li-a-am a-wi-lum i-na da-an-na-tim us,-s,i2 | oil (and) water at your disposal poured out, and the god a man in the distant future went out |
| 33 | _disz i3_ me-e i-na na-de-e-ka is-sa3-pi-ih bi-it a-wi-lim is-sa3-ap-pa-ah | oil and water in your libation he poured out, the house of a man he heaped up |
| 34 | _disz i3_ me-e i-na na-de-e-ka ip-ru-usz-ma i-tu-ur a-wi-lum li-im-ra-as, li-isz-ta-ne2-eh i-ba-lu-ut, | oil and water from your libation he opened and returned. May the man be bound, may he be calm, he will live. |
| 35 | _disz-i3_ me-e i-na na-de-e-ka it,-bu-u2-ma ka-sa3-am is,-ba-at mar-s,um i-ma-a-at | “Did you see the water in your riverbank? He grasped the silver?, the sick one is dead? |
| 36 | _disz i3_ me-e i-na na-de-e-ka it,-bu i-li-a-am-ma ki-bi-ir ka-si2-im is,-ba-at mar-s,um i-ba-lu-ut,-ma ba-al-t,u3 la i-ma-at# | oil, water, at your libation he has poured out, he goes up and the kibrītu of the kasû-vessel he seized. The sick man will recover, but the life will not be long. |
| 37 | _disz i3_ me-e i-na na-de-e-ka i-mi-tam ta-ri-ik mar-s,um i-ba-lu-ut, a-na _erin2-hi-a kaskal_ re-esz _a-sza3_-szu u2-ul i#-ka#-sza#-ad# | oil and water at your supplication, he will recover. A sick person will live; for the troops on a campaign, the head of his field he shall not reach. |
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| 1 | _disz i3_ me-e i-na na-de-ka a-ga-szu ta-ri-ik nam-ta-al-le {d}suen a-wi-lum i-ma-a-at | oil (and) water at his nadītu-offerings is poured out. Suen the man will die. |
| 2 | _disz i3_ li-ib-ba-szu e-li-ma me-e la i-ma-ha-ar a-wi-lum ha-ra-an i-la-ku ga?-ri-a-at | the oil of his stomach above and water he shall not accept; the man the harūn-disease will come. |
| 3 | _disz i3_ me-e i-na na-de-ka i-mi-it-tam u3 szu-me-lam ip-t,u3-ur pi-it-ru-usz-tum | oil and water at your passing he smeared with a sulphur and a black-headed person he cut off. |
| 4 | _disz i3_ szu-ul-mi szi-na id-di-ma mi-it-ha-ru a-na mar-s,i-im i-ba-lu-ut, a-na _kaskal_ um-ma-ni re-qu2-us-sa3 i-tu-u2-ra | the oil of well-being of those they gave, and half of them to a widow he shall live, to the journey of the master her remainder he returned. |
| 5 | _disz i3_ i-na pa-t,a-ri-szu ki-ma ka-ka-bi-im s,u2-ur-ru-usz ma-an-za-az mu-szi-im u3 {d}nin-si4-an-na | oil in his mouth like a kakkabīm ṣurrû-container a manzaz mušum and Ninsiana |
| 6 | _disz i3_ szu-ul-ma-am id-di-ma a-na i-mi-it-tim _i3-gesz_ is-hu-ra-am-ma i-mi-it-ti _i3-gesz_ is,-ba-at na-s,i-ir-ti na-ak-ri-ka us,-s,i-kum | the oil of well-being he gave, and to the right of the oil he returned, and the left of the water he seized, the guardian of your enemy he bound you. |
| 7 | _disz i3_ szu-ul-ma-am id-di-ma a-na szu-me-el _i3-gesz_ is-hu-ra-am-ma szu-me-el _i3-gesz_ is,-ba-at wa-szi-ib ma-ah-ri-i-ka a-wa-ti-ka usz-te-ne2-es,-s,i | the oil of well-being he gave, and to a third of the oil he received, and the third (of the oil) he took, who resides in your presence, your words he made enter. |
| 8 | _disz i3_ i-mi-tam u3 szu-me-lam a-na s,i-it {d}utu-szi-im u3 e-re-eb {d}utu-szi-im ip-t,u3-ur i-mi-it-ti a-wi-lim pi-a-am la ki-na-am i-da-ab-bu-ub | the oil of the imittu and the šumēlām-vessel for the rising of the sun and the entering of the moon he opened. The imittedtu of a man an untruth shall speak. |
| 9 | _disz i3_ i-mi-tam ip-t,u3-ur mar-s,a-am mu-ru-us-su2 i-sza#-an-ni-szu a-na _kaskal_ pi-si2-il-tum | The oil of the imittu-vessel has dried up, the sick person his corpse will cause him to die on the road of the pisīltum-demon |
| 10 | _disz i3_ szu-me-lam ip-t,u3-ur mar-s,u2 i-ba-lu-ut, [a-na _kaskal_ um]-ma#-ni re-isz _a-sza3_-sza i-ka-asz-sza-ad | If he has drenched in oil from a šumelam tree, he will live a sick person, and on a campaign of war the head of his field he shall conquer. |
| 11 | _disz i3_ szu-ul-ma-am id-di-ma ki-ma er-ri# [qi2-sze]-em# isz#-du#-ud# ti-bu a-na mar-s,i ka-ti-im | He poured out a well-being oil, and like a reed he sprang a message. The tibû-demon to the fate of the land |
| 12 | _disz i3_ szu-ul-ma-am id-di-ma e-li mi-[ni]-a-ti-szu ir-ta-bi ti-bu mu-ki-il re-esz li-mu-ut-tim a-na be-el _i3-gesz_ lu-mu-un li-ib-bi | the oil of well-being he gave, and above all of his possessions he removed. The tibu-priestess, the one who provides the beginning of life to the owner of the oil the lord of the heart |
| 13 | _disz i3_ szu-ul-mi szi-na id-di-ma isz-te-en ra-bi isz-te-en s,e2-he-er a-na mar-s,i ri-ig-mu-um a-na _kaskal_ um-ma-ni zi-it-tam i-ka-al | the oil of well-being of those they gave, and a great one, a small one to a sick person, to the journey of a mother he shall hold. |
| 14 | _disz 3(disz)_ szu-ul-mu ni-ip-hu | 3 (mana wool for) the well-being of Nipḫu |
| 15 | _disz 4(disz)_ szu-ul-mu ri-ig-mu-um | 4 (mana wool for) the well-being of Rigmum |
| 16 | _disz 5(disz)_ szu-ul-mu ma-an-za-az e-t,e-em-mi | 5 (mana wool for) the well-being of Manzaz, the ghost |
| 17 | _disz 6(disz)_ szu-ul-mu ma-an-za-az ku-bi | 6 (pieces of) šulmu-plant, manzaz kūbi, |
| 18 | _disz 7(disz)_ szu-ul-mu ma-al-ki-im | 7 (mana wool for) the well-being of Malkûm |
| 19 | _disz_ isz-tu qa2-ab-li-a-at um-ma-tim _7(disz) u3 7(disz)_ szu-ul-mu isz-hi-t,u3-ni-im ma-an-za-az s,e-ni e-ri-isz-ti {d}szakkan2 | From the midst of the battles of the army seven and seven times, well-being he imposed upon me, a guardian of the flock of the goddess Šakkan |
| 20 | _disz_ isz-tu qa2-ab-li-a-at um-ma-tim szu-ul-mu-um ip-t,u3-ra-am-ma ib-te-li ma-an-za-az {d}szakkan2 e-ri-isz-ti _ku3-babbar_ | from the midst of the troops well-being he opened and went up to the throne of Šakkan the extispicy of silver |
| 21 | _disz i3_ me-e i-na na-de-ka qa2-an-ni-in ir-ta-szi ma-an-za-az {d}suen | oil (and) water at the threshing floor he poured out. The seat of Sîn |
| 22 | _disz_ a-na qa2-ab-li-a-at _i3-gesz_ me-e i-na na-de-ka re-bi-a-at _i3-gesz_ ip-ru-us ma-an-za-az {d}utu e-ri-isz-ti sza-am-szi-im | “At the source of the water, at your rising, the top of the oil he opened. The manzaz-priest of Šamaš, the exalted lady, |
| 23 | _disz_ a-na qa2-ab-li-a-at _i3-gesz_ me-e i-na na-de-ka ki-ma ka-ka-bi-im isz-hi-it, ma-an-za-az {d}utu | a man in the middle of oil, water in your passing like a kābum-vessel shook the throne of Šamaš |
| 24 | _disz i3_ szu-ul-ma-am id-di-ma ki-bi-ir ka-si2-im is,-ba-at ma-an-za-az e2-a e-ri-isz-ti na-ri-im | the oil of well-being he gave, and the kibrīt kasim seized, the manzaz ērišti narim |
| 25 | _disz i3_ szu-ul-ma-am id-di-ma a-sza-ar isz-hi-t,u3 ir-ta-qi-iq a-wi-lum ik-ri-bi-szu sza i-lam <<x>> u2-ka-li-mu i-ku-ul | a man the oil of well-being he gave, and the ašar-disease he caused to be broken he has cut off. The man his prayer which the god ... he held back he ate. |
| 26 | _disz i3_ szu-ul-mu-um id-di-ma e-li um-ma-ti-szu bi-ir-s,a-am i-szu mar-s,um ma-ru-us-su2 i-na-pu-szu-ma i-sza-an-ni-szu-ma i-ma-at a-na _kaskal_ ni-ip-hu-u2 | the oil of well-being he gave, and above his troops a ṣābu-disease he saw, a sick man his arm he seized, and he himself he killed, and to the road of treachery |
| 27 | _disz i3_ a-na ha-al-li-ka ir-ta-qi2-iq uz-za-tum s,i-bi-it ku-bi | the oil for your battle has been cut off, the uzzūtu-disease, the swelling of the intestines |
| 28 | _disz i3_ a-na ha-al-li-ka pa-t,e-er ma-an-za-az {d}suen | oil to your district poured out, manzaz-Sîn |
| 29 | _disz i3_ a-na u2-di-tim i-tu-ur2 i-lu-um ik-ri-bi-szu i!-le-eq-qi2 | the oil for a long time returned, the god his prayers shall take. |
| 30 | _disz i3_ a-na szi-szi-tim i-tu-ur2 ma-an-za-az dingir-mah | he returned the oil to the household, he stood at the side of Ilī-maḫ |
| 31 | _disz i3_ me-e-szu ik-su2-us ma-mi-it i-lim a-wi-lam s,a-ab-ta-at | the oil of his water he poured, the name of the god the man was seized |
| 32 | _disz i3_ a-na s,i-it sza-am-szi-im ip-t,u3-ur i-lu-um re-esz a-wi-lim i-na-asz-szi | oil for the rising of the sky he opened, the god the head of the man shall carry. |
| 33 | _disz i3_ a-na e-re-eb {d}utu-szi-im ip-t,u3-ur lu-mu-um li-bi-im | oil for entering Šamaš he sealed. |
| 34 | _disz i3_ qa2-ab-li-szu id-ku!(LU)-usz-ma u3 i-ta-tu-szu di-im-tam sa3-ah-ra nam-ta-al-le {d}utu | he poured oil on his chest, and then he turned to him, a verdict was given, the life of Šamaš |
| 35 | _disz i3_ me-e i-na na-de-ka it,-bu mar-s,um i-ma-at | oil, water at your disposal poured out; a sick person will die. |
| 36 | _1(gesz2) 1(u) 2(disz) mu-bi-im_ | 102 lines |
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