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VS 05, 103 (P371837)
ARCHIVAL > Legal > Sale, Achaemenid, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | VS 05, 103 |
|---|---|
| ID | P371837 |
| Museum no. | VAT 00072 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE |
| Genre | ARCHIVAL > Legal > Sale |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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 32 | ... ama |
| reverse 26 | The money is not paid completely.... |
| reverse 37 | mother of Eribaya, daughter of Iqia, descendant of Ikurgina |
| obverse 8 | Total: 23 reeds 4 cubits. |
| obverse 10 | 4 12 cubits, the front horns, |
| reverse 22 | He is paid. He is free from claims. |
| reverse 27 | Until the 12th day... he shall return. |
| obverse 9 | 5 cubits is the length, the width and the width. |
| obverse 3 | the west, next to the house of D..., son of Iqubu; |
| obverse 14 | Those rations with Eribaya, son of ama-bl-ili |
| reverse 34 | scribe, uzubu, son of Zababa-ah-iddin, descendant of a-Marduk |
| obverse 15 | Nanaya-iddin, son of Banaya, of 12 field |
| reverse 35 | Sippar, Arasamnu, fourth day, 29th year of Darius. |
| obverse 13 | The coils of the colon are 24 reeds. |
| reverse 19 | and may he provide. The lady of the house gave him. |
| bottom 18 | ... 2 shekels he gave as a gift. |
| reverse 31 | ul-bunene, son of Nabû-zru-lir, descendant of ul-Nergal |
| obverse 1 | 24 reeds... of Sippar |
| reverse 25 | Whom he (the king) swore, saying: "The house has not been sold." |
| obverse 2 | between Dr 35 cubits the upper side |
| reverse 21 | Eribaya, son of ama-bel-ili, has received (it) from Nanaya-iddin. |
| reverse 30 | ama-kair, son of apik-zeri, um-Nabû, son of Muezib- |
| obverse 17 | ... he will pay... 6 barleycorns of white silver as its full price. |
| obverse 7 | the lower side on the north, next to the house of Nidintu, son of Nabû-blunu |
| reverse 29 | Witness: ama-iddin, son of. |
| obverse 5 | 33 cubits, the upper front on the north, next to the reed-bed |
| obverse 11 | The coils of the colon are 3 cubits. The 5th, it receded 12 fingers. |
| obverse 6 | the built house: the house of the south; |
| reverse 20 | The white silver, the price of his house |
| reverse 36 | king of Babylon, king of the lands, |
| obverse 12 | in a document |
| reverse 23 | They shall not return (to court) and they shall not make any claim against one another. |
| reverse 24 | brothers, sons, family, and kin of the house... |
| obverse 4 | 35 cubits, the lower side on the east, next to the reedbeds; |
| obverse 16 | 5 shekels 3 (mana wool for) the reedbed of the silver he presented, and |
| reverse 28 | At the sealing of that tablet |
| reverse 33 | ......... |
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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