YOS 20, 035 (P303119)
Administrative, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | YOS 20, 035 |
|---|---|
| ID | P303119 |
| Museum no. | NCBT 01066 |
| Collection | Newell Collections of Babylonian Tablets, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Uruk (mod. Warka) |
| Coordinates | 31.3234, 45.6395 |
English translation
By Doty, L. Timothy · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | The twenty-second day of Ṭebetu, year 71, Seleucus (was) king, all the goldsmiths weighed out: |
| Obverse [2:9] o 33–o 99 | A crown of 32 rosettes, its chain and pendant (of) 10 rosettes; its right and left sides (consist of) 2 mina and 4 shekels of gold and silver. Beyond the gold of one rosette at the front: 2 1/2 shekels of gold that is taken from my hands. Total: the complete weight of the crown: 2 minas 6 1/2 shekels of silver and gold. |
| Reverse [0:9] r 1r 1–r 99 | On that day, Labaši and his brothers, sons of Anu-uballiṭ, weighed out one aspu-ring: 13 1/2 shekels and 4/12 of a shekel of silver; one pectoral: 1/2 mina and 1/2 shekel of silver; 5 plaques: 1/2 mina 3 1/2 shekels and 1/12 of a shekel of silver; 5 gold plaques: 8 1/2 shekels, 2/12 of a shekel and 1/48 of a shekel of gold. The total that Labaši weighed out: 1 mina, 17 1/2 shekels and 5/12 of a shekel of silver, 8 1/2 shekels, 2/12 of a shekel and 1/48 of a shekel of gold. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From 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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | U₄ 22-KAM₂ ša₂ {iti}AB MU 71-KAM₂ {m}se LUGAL | |
| 2 | ša₂ i-hi-ṭu-ʾu {lu₂}KU₃.DIM-MEŠ gam-ri | |
| 3 | ⸢ku-lu⸣-lu ša₂ 32-it a-a-ri | |
| 4 | ⸢har⸣-ru-ra-⸢šu₂ u sa⸣-na-ah-šu₂ 10-et a-a-ri | |
| 5 | pa-⸢ni⸣-šu₂ ša₂ 15 u 2.30 2 MA.NA u₃ | |
| 6 | 4 GIN₂ KU₃.BABBAR u KU₃.GI e-lat KU₃.GI ša₂ 1-it a-a-ri | |
| 7 | pa-ni 2 1/2 GIN₂ KU₃.GI ša₂ ⸢ina ŠU-MIN⸣-ia ⸢iš-ša₂⸣-a | |
| 8 | ⸢PAP KU₃.BABBAR⸣ LA₂-šu₂ gam-ri ša₂ ⸢ku⸣-lu-lu 2 ⸢MA⸣.[NA] | |
| 9 | 6 1/2 GIN₂ KU₃.BABBAR u KU₃.GI | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₄-mu šu-u₂ ša₂ i-hi-ṭu-ʾu {m}la-ba-ši | |
| 2 | u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šu₂ A-MEŠ ša₂ {m}{d}60-DIN{iṭ} 1{en} se-me-ri | |
| 3 | as-pu 13 1/2 GIN₂ u₃ 4 ma-hat KU₃.BABBAR | |
| 4 | 1-it GABA 1/2 MA.NA 1/2 GIN₂ KU₃.BABBAR 5 {giš}DA | |
| 5 | 1/2 MA.NA 3 1/2 GIN₂ u₃ ma-hat KU₃.BABBAR | |
| 6 | 5 {giš}DA KU₃.GI 8 1/2 GIN₂ 2 ma-hat u₃ | |
| 7 | ra-ba-ha KU₃.GI PAP ša₂ i-hi-ṭu-ʾu {m}la-ba-ši | |
| 8 | 1 MA.NA 17 1/2 GIN₂ ⸢u₃⸣ 5 ma-hat KU₃.BABBAR | |
| 9 | 8 1/2 GIN₂ 2 ma-hat u₃ ra-ba-ha KU₃.GI | |
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