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OECT 08, 05 (P283651)
Legal, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OECT 08, 05 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283651 |
| Museum no. | Ashm 1926-0381 |
| Collection | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
Transliteration (ATF)
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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 | nam-i3-du8 kisal-la2 {d}nin-lil2 e2-gu-la | the office of doorkeeper in the courtyard of Ninlil of the Egula temple |
| 2 | mu-a u4 6(disz)-kam | for 6 days a year |
| 3 | bala gub-ba lu-mur-sza#-[{d}]utu# | bala stationed, Lūmur-ša-Utu |
| 4 | u3 i3-li2-e-ri-ba#-[am] szesz-a-ni | and Ili-eribam, his brother |
| 5 | dumu-me {d}suen-ma-gir | sons of Sîn-magir |
| 6 | ki lu-mur-sza-{d}utu u3 i3-li2-e-ri-ba-am | from Lūmur-ša-Utu and Ili-eribam |
| 7 | dumu-me {d}suen-ma-gir-ta | sons of Sîn-magir |
| 8 | {disz}ma-an-nu-um-me-szu-li-s,ur dumu a-wi-li-ia-ke4 | Mannum-mešu-liṣur, son of Awīliya |
| 9 | in-szi-in-sa10 | he bought. |
| 10 | sa10-am3 til-la-bi-sze3 | as its full price |
| 11 | 2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar in-na-an-la2-e-esz | they shall pay 2 shekels of silver to him. |
| 12 | u4 kur2-sze3 lu-mur-sza-{d}utu | in future Lūmur-ša-Utu, |
| 13 | u3 i3-li2-e-ri-ba-am szesz-a-ni | and Ilī-eribam, his brother |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | dumu {d}suen-ma-gir | son of Sin-magir |
| 2 | u3 ibila-ne-ne a-na-me-a-bi | and all their heirs |
| 3 | nam-i3-du8 kisal-la2 {d}nin-lil2 e2-gu-la | the office of doorkeeper in the courtyard of Ninlil of the Egula temple |
| 4 | mu-a u4 6(disz)-kam | for 6 days a year |
| 5 | inim nu-um-ga2-ga2-ne-a | shall not raise a claim |
| 6 | mu lugal-la tesz2-bi in-pa3-de3-esz | they have sworn by the name of the king. |
| 7 | igi i3-li2-ha-zi-ri# dumu a-wi-ia-tum | before Ili-haziri, son of Awiatum |
| 8 | igi {d}iszkur-ib-ni-szu dumu ARAD2-{d}en-lil2-la2 | before Adad-ibnišu, son of Warad-Enlila |
| 9 | igi li-pi2-it-esz18-dar dumu {d}en-lil2-ma-an-szum2 | in the presence of Lipit-Ištar, son of Enlil-manshum |
| 10 | igi a-wi-li-ia bur-gul | before Awīliya, stone-cutter |
| 11 | igi {d}nin-urta-ga-mil dub-sar | before Ninurta-gamil, the scribe |
| 12 | iti sig4-a mu sa-am-su-i-lu-na lugal kur gu2-si-a an-ga-am3 mu-un-da-bala-e | The month of Simanu, the year in which Samsu-iluna, the king of the land of Gusia, crossed over. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lu-mur-sza-[{d}utu] | Lūmur-ša-Utu |
| 2 | u3 i3-li2-e-ri-ba-am | and Ilī-eribam |
| 3 | dumu {d}suen-ma-gir | son of Sin-magir |
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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