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UET 5, 0150 (P283674)
Legal, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UET 5, 0150 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283674 |
| Museum no. | BM 131252 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| 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 | 1/2(disz) sar 3(disz) gin2 e2 du3-a | A built-up house plot of 1/2 sar and 3 shekels |
| 2 | da ha-la nig2-gi-na | adjoining the share of the property |
| 3 | u3 da ha-la bu-la-lum | and adjoining the share of Balallum |
| 4 | ki a-la-a dam szu-mi-a-hi-ia | when Alâ, wife of Šumi-ahiya |
| 5 | u3 be-li2-uru4 dumu-ni | and Belī-uru, his son, |
| 6 | {disz}im-li-kum | Immilkum, |
| 7 | {disz}a-at-ta-a | Attâ |
| 8 | u3 il3-szu-na-s,ir | and Ilšunaṣir |
| 9 | in-szi-sa10-me-esz | they bought. |
| 10 | 1(u)* gin2 ku3-babbar | 10 shekels of silver |
| 11 | sa10 til-la-ni-sze3 | as his full price |
| 12 | in-na-la2 | he has paid. |
| 13 | inim-gal2-la e2-a-ne-ne | the property of their house |
| 14 | in-na-gub-bu-me-esz | they shall serve. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u4-kur2 lu2 lu2-ulu3 | The storm, the one of mankind |
| 2 | nu-mu-un-gi4-gi4-de3 | will not return. |
| 3 | mu lugal-bi in-pa3 | he has sworn by the name of the king. |
| 4 | igi bu-la-lum dumu ur-esz3#-ban2{da} | before Balalum, son of Ur-ešbanda |
| 5 | {disz}nig2-gi-na szesz-a-ni | Niggina, his brother |
| 6 | {disz}hu-sza-szum | Hušašum |
| 7 | {disz}a-bu-ni szu-ku6 | Abūni, fisherman; |
| 8 | {disz}{d}ha-ia3-ba-ni | Haya-bani, |
| 9 | {disz}e2-ra-bi dumu {d}suen-i-ri-ba-am | Erabi, son of Sîn-iribam |
| 10 | {disz}sza-gi4-<isz>-a-bu-szu | Šagī-Ištar-abūḫu, |
| 11 | {disz}{d}i-szum-ga-mil | Išum-gamil |
| 12 | {disz}{d}en-lil2-sipa | Enlil-sipa |
| 13 | iti ab-e3 | month: “Abe’e. |
| 14 | mu i7 edin-na i7 he2-gal2-la mu-un-ba-al | year: “The river of the steppe, the river of abundance, was dug. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}nin-gesz-zi-da | For Ningešzida |
| 2 | {d}nin-a2#-zi-mu2-a | Ninazimua |
| seal 2 | ||
| 1 | a-hu-[...] | Ahu- |
| 2 | ARAD {d}nin-[...] | servant of Nin- |
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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