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NBC 04859 (P297881)
Administrative, Neo-Babylonian, Uruk · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | NBC 04859 |
|---|---|
| ID | P297881 |
| Museum no. | NBC 04859 |
| Collection | Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Uruk (mod. Warka) |
| Coordinates | 31.3234, 45.6395 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| obverse 7' | ... Nergal-nir, |
| reverse 52' | 51(?) minas of 10(?) shekels 4+tu per shekel, |
| reverse 32' | together with 1 talent of gypsum that ibiya received |
| obverse 20' | for 1 shekel of silver was given. |
| reverse 46' | x+2 minas of 11 kurru 4 pnu; in the 3 kurru of...... |
| bottom 28' | ama-eriba |
| reverse 38' | Sîn-erbi has contracted and bought them for 10 kurru. |
| obverse 12' | ... barley in their harvest... |
| obverse 19' | In it 1 talent of black wool, according to the wording of 10 minas of black wool |
| bottom 27' | x talents 10 minas of 21 kurru of barley. |
| obverse 10' | ... x+1 kurru of barley for their harvest. |
| obverse 16' | ... they brought out... of wool from there. |
| reverse 50' | 20 minas of 9 kurru 3? pnu 1? ban2: Nabû-balassu-iqbi, the interpreter scribe. |
| obverse 23' | +1 mina 13 shekels of umnu-wood, Bel-iddin, the weaver |
| reverse 44' | 1+x kurru 50 minas of 33 kurru of barley, together with 11 kurru 2 pnu of barley |
| obverse 25' | 3 talents of... wool of 40 kurru 4 pnu. |
| obverse 24' | 200 ducks — La-qipi has received |
| reverse 53' | x+1 minas of 1 1/2 shekels: Dayyn-arru-uur |
| reverse 39' | 1 talent 1 1/2 minas of 9 kurru 2 pnu 3 ban2: Nadin; |
| reverse 36' | [x]41 1 3 ma. of 12 kur 2 pnu. |
| reverse 48' | x talents... 36 5/6 minas of 31 kurru 4? pnu 4 ban2: Innin-umu-uur |
| reverse 40' | 13 minas of 3 kurru 4 pnu 3 ban2: Nanaya-ah-iddin |
| reverse 35' | Balau, son of ar-Marduk |
| obverse 26' | 11 shekels of silver: Nabû-au-kun |
| reverse 51' | 58(?) minas of 19 kurru 2 pnu 2 ban2: Anu-ikur |
| obverse 22' | he received. The remainder(?): 51 shekels, 3 (shekels) of silver before him |
| reverse 55' | Nabû-ahu-iddina |
| obverse 14' | ... gave... Babylon |
| obverse 4' | ... Babylon... gave... |
| bottom 29' | 6 talents of Nebuchadnezzar, the messenger(?) |
| obverse 2' | ... minas of silver he gave. |
| reverse 47' | ... Nadin-apli, son of Marduk-um-iddina |
| obverse 9' | ... who is against the sheepfold. |
| reverse 37' | 12 talents 45 minas 50 shekels of 31 kurru 3 pnu 4 ban2 barley |
| reverse 30' | of Nergal-ipu,... before... |
| reverse 49' | [x+]2 minas 13 shekels of 4 kurru 3(?) pnu 1? ban2:...-um-iddin |
| obverse 3' | of...... together with 1 mina of silver. |
| reverse 34' | 3 talents 25 12 minas of 54 kurru |
| reverse 31' | 6 talents of hyena, 3 talents of hyena |
| obverse 15' | ... he will pay the donkeys for their rent. |
| reverse 33' | amamnu, messenger of Nabû-blunu |
| obverse 21' | [x]+4 minas 13 1 shekel, 3 (shekels) of silver, |
| obverse 13' | ... his troops which are against the troops |
| obverse 6' | ... x+1 kurru barley in the harvest... |
| obverse 5' | ............ |
| obverse 18' | from Agade they brought out of it |
| reverse 42' | 8 talents of 1 hundred 44 |
| reverse 43' | 1 5/6 minas 5 shekels of 3 kurru 2 pnu 4 ban2: Imbiya |
| obverse 17' | x talents of yoke, which to the side of the mashkiru-vessel |
| obverse 11' | ... my entire... and 2(?) |
| obverse 8' | ... who with Labai |
| reverse 41' | 22 12 minas of 6 kurru 3 pnu 4 ban2 3 qû: IR-Bel |
| reverse 45' | of ama-mukn-apli, Kr-Marduk |
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
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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