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UET 5, 0123 (P283669)
Legal, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UET 5, 0123 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283669 |
| Museum no. | IM 067728 |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| Find spot | Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) |
| Coordinates | 30.9607, 46.1063 |
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 | 1(disz) 5/6(disz) sar e2 du3-a | A built-up house plot of 1 5/6 sar |
| 2 | da e2 {d}suen-ma-an-szum2 | next to the house of Sîn-manšum, |
| 3 | u3 da e-sir2 bu-zu-u2 | and next to the bitumen road, |
| 4 | e2 ku3-{d}nin-gal | the temple of Ku-Ningal |
| 5 | ki-bi-gar-ra e2-bi-sze3 | to the kibiŋara of this house |
| 6 | 1(disz) sar e2 du3-a | A built-up house plot of 1 sar |
| 7 | da e2 ku3-{d}nin-gal | next to the house of Ku-Ningal, |
| 8 | u3 da e2 {d}suen-uru4 engar | and next to the house of Sîn-uru, the plowman; |
| 9 | e2 nig2-gi-na {disz}bu-la-tum | the house of justice Balatum |
| 10 | u3 szu-mi-a-hi-ia | and Šumiaḫiya |
| 11 | dumu-mesz ur-esz3-banda3{da} | sons of Ur-ešbanda, |
| 12 | ki-bi-gar-ra e2-ne-ne | at the kibbiŋara of the houses |
| 13 | nam ku3-{d}nin-gal | the office of Ku-Ningal |
| 14 | in-na-an-szum2-mu-usz | he shall give him. |
| 15 | inim-gal2-la e2-ne-ne | and the words of their houses |
| 16 | {disz}nig2-gi-na {disz}bu-la#-[lum] | Nigin, Bulalum |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u3 szu-mi-a-hi-ia | and Šumiaḫiya |
| 2 | in-na-gub-bu-e-ne | they will stand for him. |
| 3 | u4-kur2-sze3 szesz szesz-ra | In the future, for brother after brother |
| 4 | inim-ma nu-ga2-ga2 | will not raise a claim |
| 5 | mu ri-im-{d}suen lugal in-pa3-e-ne | year: “Rīm-Sîn, the king, was chosen. |
| 6 | igi e2-sag-gu2!-gal2 dub-sar | before Esaggugal, the scribe |
| 7 | {disz}{d}suen-sze-mi | Sin-šeme, |
| 8 | {disz}e2-ra-bi | Erabi, |
| 9 | {disz}{d}suen-uru4 engar | Sîn-uru, the plowman; |
| 10 | {disz}da-da-a dumu a-hu-la-ap-{d}suen | Dada, son of Aḫulap-Sîn |
| 11 | {disz}{d}suen-dam-gar3-ri# dumu ku3-{d}nin-gal | Sîn-damgari, son of Ku-Ningal |
| 12 | {disz}e-la-a [dumu] ur-{d}da-mu | Elaya, son of Ur-Damu |
| 13 | {disz}t,a3-ab#-[s,il2-li2]-lugal bar-szu-ma | Ṭāb-ṣilli-king took it away and |
| 14 | {disz}{d}nin#-[gesz]-zi-da-ga-mil | Ningešzida-gamil |
| 15 | {disz}e2-a-he2-gal2 | Ea-ḫegal |
| 16 | {disz}i-ba-[asz]-szi-dingir! | Ibašši-ilum |
| 17 | lu2-inim-ma-bi-mesz | their witnesses |
| 18 | iti# szu-numun#-a | month: “Sowing,’ |
| 19 | mu# i7 lagasz{ki} za3 a#-[ab-ba-sze3] ba-ba-al | year: “The canal of Lagaš to the border of the Sea was dug.’— |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | nig2-gi#-na | a kind of thing |
| 2 | bu-la-lum | Balalum, |
| 3 | u3 szu-mi-a-hi-ia | and Šumiaḫiya |
| 4 | dumu ur-esz3-banda3{da} | son of Ur-ešbanda, |
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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