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VS 04, 146 (P371669)
Receipt, Achaemenid, Babylon · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | VS 04, 146 |
|---|---|
| ID | P371669 |
| Museum no. | VAT 00357 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE |
| Genre | Receipt |
| 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 | i-di E₂-šu₂ ša₂ a-di qi₂-it {iti}NE | the rent of his house until the end of Abu |
| 2 | MU 18-KAM {m}da-a-ri-ʾa-muš LUGAL | Year 18 of Darius, the king |
| 3 | {m}MU-{d}NA₃ DUMU ša₂ {m}{d}NA₃-DU₃-NUMUN DUMU {lu₂}SIMUG | Šuma-Nabu, son of Nabu-ban-zeri, descendant of Nappahu |
| 4 | ina ŠU.II {m}{d}NA₃-bul-liṭ-su DUMU ša₂ {m}{d}EN-MU-GAR{un} | from Nabu-bullissu, son of Bel-šuma-iṣbi |
| 5 | DUMU {m}ŠEŠ-ba-ni a-na muh-hi {m}{⸢d}NA₃-URU₃-šu₂⸣ | son of Xerxes to Nabu-uṣuršu |
| 6 | DUMU ša₂ {m}{d}NA₃-ke-šir₃ DUMU {m}an-da-har | son of Nabu-kēšir, descendant of Andahar |
| 7 | ma-hi-ir 1{en}TA.AM₃ ša₂-ṭa-ri | Each has taken a copy. |
| 8 | TI{u₂} | he will recover. |
| 9 | šu-gar-ru-u₂ ša₂ mi-šil MU.AN.NA-MEŠ | The šugarrû-priest of all the years |
| 10 | ma-hi-ir | received. |
| r | ||
| 11 | {lu₂}mu-kin-nu {m}mu-ra-nu DUMU ša₂ {m}ba-si-ia₂ | Witnesses: Muranu, son of Basiya |
| 12 | DUMU {m}{d}30-DINGIR {m}mu-ra-šu-u₂(NU) DUMU ša₂ {m}KA₅.A | son of Sin-ili, Murašû, son of KA.A |
| 13 | DUMU {m}{⸢d}30-DINGIR⸣ {m}⸢lib-luṭ DUMU ša₂⸣ {m}DU₃{a} | son of Sîn-ilī, E-liblut-db son of Ša-e |
| 14 | ⸢DUMU {m}{lu₂}a⸣-su-u₂ | son of Aya-esû |
| 15 | {m}{d}AMAR.UTU-EN-šu₂-nu DUB.SAR DUMU ša₂ {m}{d}NA₃-TIN{iṭ} | Marduk-belšunu, scribe, son of Nabu-balaṭu |
| 16 | ⸢DUMU⸣ {m}e-ṭe₃-ru TIN.TIR{ki} {iti}ŠE | “Bīt-Mar-ēriš, Eṭbēru, Babylon, month of Šabaṭu, |
| 17 | ⸢UD⸣ 6-KAM MU 17-KAM {m}da-a-ri-muš | 6th day, 17th year of Darius, |
| 18 | LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} LUGAL KUR.KUR | King of Babylon, king of the lands. |
Sources & licences
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