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UET 5, 0179 (P283675)
Legal, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UET 5, 0179 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283675 |
| Museum no. | BM 131260 |
| 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(iku)* GAN2 {gesz}kiri6# | 1 iku field, orchard |
| 2 | da {gesz}kiri6# [...] | next to the orchard |
| 3 | u3 da x [...] | and ... |
| 4 | ki be-la#-[nu-um] | from Belanum |
| 5 | {disz}ku3-{d}[nin]-gal# | Ku-Ningal |
| 6 | in-[szi]-sa10 | bought. |
| 7 | 1(u) 1(disz) gin2 igi-6(disz)-gal2 ku3-babbar | 11 1/6 shekels silver, |
| 8 | sa10 til-la-ni-sze3 | as his full price |
| 9 | in#-na-la2 | he has paid. |
| 10 | [inim]-gal2-la {gesz}kiri6 | with a claim in the orchard |
| 11 | in#-na-gub-bu | he set up for him. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u4-kur2-sze3 | in the future |
| 2 | inim-ma nu-ga2-ga2 | will not raise a claim |
| 3 | mu-lugal-bi in-pa3 | he has sworn by the name of the king. |
| 4 | igi {d}suen-mu-ba-li2-it, | before Sîn-muballiṭ |
| 5 | {disz}{d}suen-pi-la-ah | Sîn-pilah |
| 6 | {disz}{d}suen-uru4 szandana | Sîn-uṣur, the šandana |
| 7 | {disz}{d}suen-uru4 gudu4 e2 {d}en-ki | Sîn-uru, gudug priest of the temple of Enki |
| 8 | {disz}ARAD-{d}nanna | Warad-Nanna |
| 9 | {disz}e2-sag-gu2-gal | Esaggugal |
| 10 | {disz}lugal-nig2-gi-na | Lugal-niggina |
| 11 | {disz}{d}suen-ma-an-szum2 | Sin-manšum |
| 12 | kiszib lu2-inim-ma-bi-mesz# | sealed documents of witnesses |
| 13 | iti ab-e3 | month: “Abe’e. |
| 14 | mu i7 lagasz#{[ki]} za3 a-ab-ba [ba-ba-al] | year: “The canal of Lagaš at the edge of the sea was dug.{struction.} |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | [...] x x x [...] | |
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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