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OB Contracts, pl. C3 no. 16 (P276403)
Legal, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OB Contracts, pl. C3 no. 16 |
|---|---|
| ID | P276403 |
| Museum no. | N 1253 + N 2528 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1(diš) sar 2(diš) <gin₂> e₂ du₃-a | 1 sar 2 shekels, built house; |
| 2 | da e₂ ⸢lu₂⸣-nibru{ki} dumu ur-du₆-ku₃-ga | next to the house of Lu-Enibru, son of Ur-dukuga, |
| 3 | e₂ {d}sin-še-⸢mi⸣ [dumu] ur-du₆-ku₃-ga | the temple of Sinše-emī-e, son of Ur-dukuga |
| 4 | ki-ba gar-ra-⸢bi⸣-[še₃] | to the place where it was established |
| 5 | 1/3(diš) sar 5(diš) gin₂ e₂-[du₃-a] | 1/3 sar 5 shekels, built house |
| 6 | ib₂-si ba-[la₂] | he stretched out the net |
| 7 | ⸢da e₂⸣-{d}da-mu-[...] | with the temple E-e-damu- |
| 8 | ⸢e₂⸣ [...] lu [...] | “House, ..., may |
| 9 | [...] ku₃-⸢babbar⸣ [...] | ... silver |
| r | ||
| 1ʾ | iti [...]-a u₄ [...] | Month ..., day ... |
| 2ʾ | mu sa-am-su-i-[lu-na lugal-e] | year: "Samsu-iluna the king." |
| 3ʾ | ⸢ugnim i⸣-da-ma-[ra-aṣ-ki] | the army of Idamaraš |
| 4ʾ | u₃ ki-en-gi ki-uri | and Sumer and Akkad |
| 5ʾ | {geš}naga₃ bi₂-in-ak-a | he had made a vase of alkali |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}sin-še-mi | Sinšemi, |
| 2 | dumu | son |
| 3 | ur-du₆-ku₃-ga | Ur-dukuga, |
| seal 2 | ||
| 1 | ur-du₆-ku₃-ga | Ur-dukuga, |
| 2 | dumu | son |
| 3 | ⸢x⸣-[...] | |
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