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OB Contracts, pl. G1 no. 56 (P276319)

Legal, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	OB Contracts, pl. G1 no. 56
ID	P276319
Museum no.	N 1168
Collection	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Legal
Find spot	Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Coordinates	32.1271, 45.2300

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)

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.

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
1ʾ	{⸢d⸣}[...]	E22d-E23
2ʾ	u₄ ⸢buru₁₄⸣ [...]	When the harvest
3ʾ	siki udu [...]	wool of a sheep
4ʾ	ki KA-{d}EN-[...]	from KA-Bēl-
e.
5ʾ	ba-ab-⸢šum₂⸣-[mu]	to be gathered
r
6ʾ	tukumbi siki-udu-⸢x⸣	If wool from a sheep
7ʾ	nu-um-ma-an-⸢du₃⸣ [...]	... did not build for me
8ʾ	ku₃-u₃ maš₂-bi i₃-la₂-[e]	the silver and its interest he shall pay.
9ʾ	igi {d}utu-⸢x⸣ [...]	before Utu-e23
10ʾ	igi he₂-a-⸢x⸣ [...]	May he see you
11ʾ	ugula-[...]	foreman:

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