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OECT 08, 06 (P283652)
Legal, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OECT 08, 06 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283652 |
| Museum no. | Ashm 1926-0383 |
| 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)
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 | e2#-da-di {d}en-lil2 {d}nin-lil2-la2 | the Edadi temple of Enlil and Ninlil |
| 2 | mu#-a iti 1(disz)-kam | for 1 year |
| 3 | bala gub-ba i3-li2-ip-pa-al-sa3-am dumu {d}suen-ma-gir | in bala stationed Ilī-ippalsam, son of Sîn-magir |
| 4 | ki i3-li2-ip-pa-al-sa3-am dumu {d}suen-ma-gir | from Ilī-ippalsam son of Sîn-magir |
| 5 | {disz}ma-an-nu-um-me-szu-li-s,ur dumu a-wi-li-ia-ke4 | Mannum-mešu-liṣur, son of Awīliya |
| 6 | in-szi-in-sa10 | he bought. |
| 7 | sa10-am3 til-la-bi-sze3 | as its full price |
| 8 | 3(disz) 1/2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar | 3 1/2 shekels of silver |
| 9 | in-na-an-la2 | he has paid. |
| 10 | u4 kur2-sze3 i3-li2-ip-pa#-[al-sa3-am] | In the future Ilī-ippalsam |
| 11 | u3 ibila-a-ni a#-[na-me-a-bi] | and all his heirs |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | e2-da-di {d}en-lil2 [{d}nin-lil2-la2] | the Edadi of Enlil and Ninlil |
| 2 | mu-a iti 1(disz)-[kam] | for 1 month |
| 3 | inim nu-um-ga2-ga2-[a] | shall not raise a claim |
| 4 | mu lugal-la-bi in-pa3# | he has sworn by the name of the king. |
| 5 | igi ma-ri-er-s,e-tim dumu giri3-ni-i3-sa3 | before Mari-erṣetim, son of Girini-isa |
| 6 | igi ri-isz-e2-a dumu si2-na-tum | before Rīš-Ea, son of Sinatum |
| 7 | igi du10-TAR-{d}iszkur bur-gul | before Dūr-TAR-Adda, stone-cutter |
| 8 | igi {d}nin-urta-ga-mil dub-sar | before Ninurta-gamil, the scribe |
| 9 | iti gan-gan-e3 u4 1(u) 7(disz)-kam | The month of Kislimu, the day 17 |
| 10 | mu sa-am-su-i-lu-na lugal bad3 uri2{ki} unu{ki}-ga mu-un-gul-la | year: “Samsu-iluna, the king, the wall of Ur and Uruk he destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | i3-li2-ip-pa-al-sa3-<am> | Ili-ippalsa |
| 2 | dumu {d}suen-ma-gir | son of Sin-magir |
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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