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OB Contracts, pl. B4 no. 10 (P277153)
Legal, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OB Contracts, pl. B4 no. 10 |
|---|---|
| ID | P277153 |
| Museum no. | N 2042 + Ist Ni 09283 |
| 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 e₂ kislah | 1 sar, the house of Kislah; |
| 2 | da e₂-a-di-ia-tum | next to Ea-diyatum, |
| 3 | e₂ ku-⸢gu⸣-za-⸢na⸣ | the temple Kuguzaenae |
| 4 | ki ku-gu-za-na-⸢ta⸣ | from Kuguzana’e |
| 5 | {diš}i₃-li₂-[...] ⸢dam⸣ [...] | Ilī- |
| 6 | in-ši-[in-sa₁₀] | bought. |
| 7 | sam₂(|NINDA₂׊E.A.AN|) til-⸢la⸣-[bi-še₃] | as its full price |
| 8 | 1(u) 1(diš) gin₂ [ku₃-babbar] | 11 shekels of silver |
| 9 | in-na-[an-la₂] | he has paid. |
| 10 | ⸢u₄⸣ kur₂-še₃ ⸢ku⸣-[gu-za]-⸢na⸣ | In the future, may a future ruler restore it to its place |
| 11 | u₃ ⸢ibila⸣-[a-ni a-na me-a-bi] | and his heirs as many as there are |
| 12 | e₂-⸢bi⸣-še₃ inim [nu-um-ga₂-ga₂-a] | does not raise a claim concerning this temple |
| 13 | [...] | |
| r | ||
| 14 | [...] | |
| 15 | ⸢igi⸣ x-gir₃-bala-⸢x⸣ [...] | “Ištar, ..., |
| 16 | igi ba-al-ṭu-[...] | before Balṭu |
| 17 | dumu ⸢ilu⸣-ga-⸢mil⸣ | son of Ilu-ega-emil |
| 18 | igi {d}sin-li-di-⸢iš⸣ | before Sinli-dī-eše |
| 19 | iti sig₄-a-ka | in the month of Simanu |
| 20 | mu ha-am-mu-ra-bi | year: “Ḫammurabi. |
| 21 | lugal ur-sag | king, hero |
| 22 | u₃ ma {d}⸢marduk⸣ | and the land of Marduk |
Sources & licences
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- 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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