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ARN 037 (P283590)
Legal, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | ARN 037 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283590 |
| Museum no. | Ist Ni 09218 |
| Collection | Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Language | Sumerian |
| 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 | {diš}arad-{d}utu [dumu ib-ni-{d}...] | Barad-šamaš, son of Ibni- |
| 2 | {diš}ir-ṣi-ia [dumu-munus ur-...] | Iršbia daughter of Ur- |
| 3 | ša₃ nibru{ki} ba-[an-tuk] | in Nippur he acquired |
| 4 | mu lugal-la-⸢ka⸣-[ni in-pa₃] | year: “Lugal-la-eka-e-ni swore. |
| 5 | ⸢e₂⸣ a-ša₃ {geš}kiri₆ [...] | E22e23 field, orchard |
| 6 | [...] x [...] | |
| 7 | [...] x x [...] | |
| 8 | igi [...] | before ... |
| 9 | in-[...] | ... ... |
| 10 | {diš}arad-{d}[utu ...] | Barad-Šamaš |
| 11 | ki x x [...] | ... ... |
| 12 | ša₃ nibru{ki} [...] | In Nippur |
| 13 | uru-ni-še₃ ša₃ ⸢x⸣ [...] | In his city, the heart of the temple |
| 14 | u₄ kur₂-še₃ [tukun-bi] | and a future time |
| 15 | {[diš]}⸢ir⸣-[ṣi-ia ...] | Erešbia |
| 16 | {diš}arad-{d}utu dam-na-[ra ...] | Barad-Šamaš, his spouse |
| 17 | dam-mu [nu]-me-⸢en⸣ ba-[na-an-dug₄] | I am not my spouse, he gave it to him. |
| 18 | ⸢e₂⸣ a-[ša₃ {geš]}⸢kiri₆⸣ [nig₂-gur₁₁] | house, field, orchard, property |
| 19 | ⸢a⸣-[na me-a-bi ba-ra]-e₃-⸢de₃⸣ | Where will he go? |
| 20 | [...] i₃-la₂-⸢e⸣ | ... he will pay. |
| 21 | ⸢u₃⸣ tukun-bi ⸢arad⸣-{[d}utu] | “If he so pleases, Earad-Šamaš |
| 22 | {diš}ir-ṣi-ia dam-a-na | Iršbia, his wife |
| 23 | {diš}dingir-šu-ib-ni-šu dumu-[a-na] | Ilu-ibnīšu, his son |
| 24 | u₃ a-pil₂-i₃-li₂-šu [dumu-a]-⸢na⸣ | and Apil-ilišu, son of Amanus |
| 25 | dam-mu u₃ dumu-mu [nu-me-en] | I am neither my spouse nor my child. |
| 26 | ba-ne-en-dug₄ | he made sound. |
| 27 | 1/2(diš) ma-na ku₃-babbar i₃-[la₂-e] | 1/2 mina of silver he shall weigh out |
| 28 | še-ga-ne-ne dub in-na-[an-sar-eš] | They have written a tablet for him |
| 29 | mu lugal-bi in-pad₃-⸢de₃⸣-[eš] | they have sworn by the name of the king. |
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)
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