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UET 5, 0428 (P283689)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UET 5, 0428 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283689 |
| Museum no. | BM 131326 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| 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 | 5(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar | 5 shekels of silver |
| 2 | nam inim sa6-sa6-ge-de3 | to decree a fate of pleasing words |
| 3 | ki dim-ur4-lam-an | from Dimur-laman |
| 4 | {disz}da?-arhusz-ak-im | Dārḫuš-akim, |
| 5 | szu ba-an-ti | received. |
| 6 | ki AN-KAL-bi-sze3 | to the place of ... |
| 7 | szu ba-an-ti | received. |
| 8 | ku3 gur-ru-dam | to be returned in silver |
| 9 | mu lugal-bi in-pa3 | he has sworn by the name of the king. |
| 10 | 1(disz) ma-na ku3-babbar | 1 mina of silver |
| 11 | sza3 1/2(disz) utu{+szi} | of 1/2 utu, |
| 12 | 1/2(disz) ma-na ku3-babbar | 1/2 mina of silver |
| 13 | bar-ta | from outside |
| 14 | na4 sag10 | fine stone |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | u3!(KI) nig2-nam-ma | and everything |
| 2 | sa10-sa10-de3 | to buy, |
| 3 | kaskal x-{d}utu-na? | the road of -Utuna(?) |
| 4 | ki t,a-ab2-e2-lam | from Ṭāb-Elam |
| 5 | {disz}e2-an-DU | Eanna-ibni |
| 6 | szu ba-an-ti | received. |
| 7 | kaskal-ta silim-ma-bi | and from the road it is well. |
| 8 | sa10 ku3 im-ma-tum3 | he brought the silver price. |
| 9 | sza3 um-mi-a al-du10 | The heart of the mother is sweet. |
| 10 | um-mi-a ku5 ke4-de3 | to cut off the mother, |
| 11 | nu-un-ta-zu-zu | did not know |
| 12 | mu lugal-bi in-pa3 | he has sworn by the name of the king. |
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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