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YOS 12, 258 (P307272)
Legal, Old Babylonian, Larsa · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | YOS 12, 258 |
|---|---|
| ID | P307272 |
| Museum no. | YBC 06236 |
| Collection | Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| Find spot | Larsa (mod. Tell as-Senkereh) |
| Coordinates | 31.2832, 45.8549 |
Transliteration (ATF)
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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 | _1(iku) GAN2# a-sza3_ x x x [...] x x | 1 iku field area ... ... |
| 2 | _sza3 a-sza3_ ia-ha-ti-lum | from the field Yaḫatilum |
| 3 | _da a-sza3 nagar u3 da {gesz}szinig_ | adjacent to the field of the carpenter and next to the mill, |
| 4 | _a-sza3 szuku_ bala-a | the field of the šuku-offering, in bala |
| 5 | _ki_ bala-a be-el _a-sza3_-lim | from the bala the owner of the field |
| 6 | {disz}ki-is,-ru-um _dumu_ i3-li2-u3-{d}utu | Kiṣrium, son of Ilī-u-šamaš |
| 7 | a-na _{gesz}geszimmar u3 {gesz}szinig_ | for date palm and tamarisk |
| 8 | za-qa2-pi-im | |
| 9 | _nig2 mu 3(disz)-kam ib2-ta-e3_ | that of the 3rd year he went out |
| 10 | _{gesz}geszimmar u3 {gesz}szinig_ | date palm and tamarisk |
| 11 | u2-ul i-za-qa2-am-ma | shall not raise a claim, and |
| 12 | _1(iku) GAN2 1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar i3-la2-e_ | 1 iku surface area at 10 shekels of silver he shall weigh out. |
| 13 | _7(disz) sila3 numun ga-rasz{sar} | 7 sila3 of seeds of groats |
| 14 | _1(disz) {gesz}mar uruda_ | 1 copper barge |
| 15 | {disz}bala-a i-na-ad-di-[in] | Balāya will give |
| 16 | _mu nig2 sze-ba_ | the year in which that barley |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | ma-la {disz}bala-a | as much as Balāya |
| 2 | i-le-qe2-a szu-x-[...] | shall take |
| 3 | {disz}ki-is,-ru-um _dam-gar3_ i-ka-al | Kiṣrum the merchant shall weigh out. |
| 4 | _nu-ub-ta-bala-e_ | shall not cross over. |
| 5 | ni-isz sa-am-su-i-lu-na _lugal in-pa3_ | by the life of Samsu-iluna the king he chose |
| 6 | _igi_ i3-li2-tu-ra-am _dumu_ ib-ni-{d}iszkur | before Ilī-turam, son of Ibni-Adad |
| 7 | {disz}ip-qu2-{d}ba-ba6 | Ipqu-Baba |
| 8 | {disz}na-bi-{d}dam-gal-nun-na | Nabi-damgalnuna |
| 9 | {disz}i3-li2-i-qi2-sza-am ra-bi-a-nu | Ilī-iqišam, his master |
| 10 | il-lu-lu | they will carry. |
| 11 | {disz}{d}suen-re-ma-an-ni _szu-i_ | Sîn-rēmanni, the barber |
| 12 | _kiszib3-a-ni ib2-ra-asz!_ | his seal he impressed. |
| 13 | _iti ab-e3 u4 2(u) 1(disz)-kam_ | The month of Addarum, the day 21 |
| 14 | _mu_ sa-am-su-i-lu-na _[lugal] {gesz}tukul szu-nir nig2 babbar ku3-sig17_ | year: “Samsu-iluna, the king, with a mighty weapon of white gold |
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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