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N 1855 (P276971)
Legal, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 1855 |
|---|---|
| ID | P276971 |
| Museum no. | N 1855 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1' | [...] x x [...] | |
| 2' | {disz#}{d}nin#-urta#?-[...] | Ninurta- |
| 3' | a-sza3 LAM-KA [...] | field ... |
| 4' | u3 nig2-gu2-na e2-a# [...] | and the property of the house |
| 5' | 3(disz) {gesz!}ig mi-ri2#-[za ...] | 3 doors of mīra |
| 6' | 1(disz) {na4}kikken2! bahar2 szu# [...] | 1 kikken stone for the potter |
| 7' | 1(disz) {na4}kikken2! zi3!-gu [...] | 1 kikken-stone of ... flour |
| 8 | ha-la ba nu-x-[...] | The share was not ... |
| 9 | 3(iku) GAN2# a-sza3 apin# [...] | 3 iku field, plow field |
| 10 | [...] x x [...] | |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | x [...] x [...] | |
| 2' | 5(disz) sar e2 du3#?-[a ...] | A built house plot of 5 sar |
| 3' | da e2 x-[...] | next to the house ... |
| 4' | 1(esze3) GAN2 a-sza3# [...] | 1 eše3 field area |
| 5' | 2(iku) GAN2 a-sza3# [...] | 2 iku field |
| 6' | 4(u) sar {gesz}kiri6#? [...] | 40 sar, orchard |
| 7' | {disz}u3#?-mu-[...] | Umu- |
| 8' | {disz}a-ma-at#-[...] | Amat- |
| 9' | {disz}{d}EN-x-[...] | Bel- |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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