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VS 04, 071 (P371595)
Legal, Achaemenid, Babylon · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | VS 04, 071 |
|---|---|
| ID | P371595 |
| Museum no. | VAT 00114 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
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)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | 1 MA.NA 52 1/2 GIN₂ ⸢KU₃.BABBAR⸣ | 1 mina 52 1/2 shekels of e-silver, |
| 2 | re-eh-tu₂ ŠAM₂ E₂ | The remainder of the price of the house |
| 3 | ša₂ {m}BA{ša₂-a} A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}MU-MU A {lu₂}KU₃.TIM | From Iqiša, son of Šuma-iddin, descendant of Kutim. |
| 4 | ina UGU {m}MU-{d}NA₃ A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{⸢d}NA₃⸣-DU₃-NUMUN | by Šuma-Nabu, son of Nabu-bani-zeri |
| 5 | A {lu₂}SIMUG ina {iti}GAN | from the Nappahu family in Kislimu |
| 6 | [ina] SAG.DU-šu₂ i-nam-din | at his head he shall pay. |
| r | ||
| 7 | {[lu₂}mu-kin-nu {m]}{d}NA₃-KAR-⸢ZI⸣-[MEŠ] | Witnesses: Nabu-eṭir-napšati |
| 8 | ⸢A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}šu-zu⸣-bu A {lu₂}GAL.DU₃ | son of Šuzu-Ebu, descendant of Rab-bane |
| 9 | {m}{d}EN-NUMUN-DU₃ A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}ina-SUH₃-SUR | Bel-zera-ibni, son of Ina-teši-eṭir |
| 10 | A {m}IR₃-{d}GIR₄.KU₃ u {lu₂}UMBISAG | from the Arad-GIRKU family and the scribe |
| 11 | {m}KI-{d}NA₃-TIN A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}KAR-{d}AMAR.UTU | Itti-Nabu-balaṭu, son of Šūzub-Marduk |
| 12 | A {m}{d}30-tab-ni TIN.TIR{ki} | from the Sin-tabni family. Babylon. |
| 13 | {iti}ŠE UD 24-KAM MU 1-KAM | 24th day of Duʾuzu, 1st year |
| 14 | {m}kam-bu-zi-ia₂ LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} | Cambyses, king of Babylon. |
| 15 | LUGAL KUR.KUR | king of all lands. |
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
- 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)
- 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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