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NCBT 00987 (P303040)
Administrative, Achaemenid, Babylon · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | NCBT 00987 |
|---|---|
| ID | P303040 |
| Museum no. | NCBT 00987 |
| Collection | Newell Collections of Babylonian Tablets, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 3 | son of Dayyn-ahhe-iddin, descendant of igu’a |
| reverse 7 | (In) Nisannu (Month I), the 05th day |
| reverse 6 | son of Kadib, gate of Babylon. |
| reverse 2 | of Aurrea and Marduk-nir |
| obverse 4 | In the month Simanu, he will pay 5 kur of barley. |
| reverse 1 | Witnesses: Sigundu, his son |
| reverse 8 | Kummaziya, king of Babylon. |
| obverse 2 | Itar of Uruk on behalf of |
| obverse 1 | 5 kurru barley,... |
| reverse 5 | and the scribe, adnu, son of Gula-um-ibni |
| reverse 4 | and ama-arru-uur, son of Nabû-zeru-ibni |
| obverse 3 | son of ama-ina-tei-eir |
| obverse 5 | in Babylon, at the quay of Itar of Uruk |
| reverse 9 | and the king of the lands |
| obverse 6 | he shall pay. |
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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