Unread Atlas
UET 5, 0367 (P283686)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | UET 5, 0367 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283686 |
| Museum no. | UM 52-30-151 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts |
| 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 | 2(disz) ma-na ku3-babbar | 2 minas of silver |
| 2 | 5(asz) i3-gesz gur | 5 gur of oil, |
| 3 | 3(u) tug2-hi-a | 30 textiles, |
| 4 | kaskal dilmun{ki}-sze3 | on the road to Dilmun |
| 5 | nam uruda! sa10-de3 | to buy copper |
| 6 | ku3 nam-tab-ba | of silver and partnership, |
| 7 | ki ur-{d}nin-mar{ki}-ka | from Ur-Ninmar |
| 8 | {disz}lu2-{d}mesz-lam-ta-e3 | Lu-Mešlamta-e |
| 9 | u3 nig2-si-sa2-ab-diri | and justice |
| 10 | szu ba-an-ti-esz | they received. |
| 11 | kaskal-ta silim-ma-bi | and from the road it is well. |
| 12 | i-bi2-za dam-gar3-ra | before you, the merchant |
| 13 | nu-mu-un-ta-zu-zu | did not know |
| 14 | inim sze-ga-ne-ne | their agreeable words |
| 15 | 1(disz) gin2-e 4(disz) ma-na uruda | 1 shekel, 4 minas of copper |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [sa10] nig2 gi-na | the price of a regular offering |
| 2 | {disz}ur-{d}nin-mar{ki}-ka | Ur-Ninmar, |
| 3 | al-du10-ge-esz | are good, |
| 4 | mu lugal-bi tesz2-be2 in-pa3-de3-esz | they have sworn by the name of the king. |
| 5 | igi {d}suen-dingir | before Sîn-ilum |
| 6 | {disz}{d}suen-a-sza-re-ed | Sîn-apla-rēd, |
| 7 | {disz}{d}suen-mu-tab-bil | Sîn-mutabbil |
| 8 | {disz}{d}suen-[i-din-na]-asz-szu | Sîn-iddin-nāšu |
| 9 | {disz}x-[... ma]-gir# | ... received. |
| 10 | kiszib lu2#-[inim-ma-bi]-mesz# | under seal of the witnesses |
| 11 | iti sze-sag11-[ku5] u4 1(u) 2(disz)-kam | the month of Addarum, the day 12 |
| 12 | mu bad3 zar-bi2-lum mu-un-du3-a | year: “The wall of Zarbilum was erected. |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.