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VS 05, 140 (P371874)
ARCHIVAL > Legal > Sale, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | VS 05, 140 |
|---|---|
| ID | P371874 |
| Museum no. | VAT 03375 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | ARCHIVAL > Legal > Sale |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 4 | son of a-Muntiu, who is with the sons |
| obverse 10 | to his own name |
| obverse 17 | they shall not make any claim against one another. |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| reverse 3' | his son |
| reverse 5' | The silver to |
| obverse 5 | of api-Nabû, son of his father, knew |
| reverse 10' | like his seal you have sworn |
| reverse 2' | ... |
| reverse 4' | Nabû- |
| obverse 11 | Total: 15 shekels of silver, the price. |
| obverse 13 | Nabû-bl-ahheu, son of a-Muntiu |
| reverse 8' | Nabu-um-iddina |
| reverse 6' | and if |
| obverse 12 | From Nabû-umu-iddin, son of Kidin-Sîn. |
| obverse 1 | [2 pnu] 3 stu of arable land, [in] a-Nabûu |
| obverse 19 | he will pay 12 times over. |
| obverse 18 | the pqrnu received the money |
| obverse 16 | or he will not return. |
| reverse 7' | According to the mouth of the seal |
| obverse 2 | of 50 belonging to Nabû-rammeni, son of Abnaya. |
| obverse 9 | he will pay the silver and he will recover. |
| obverse 6 | When 15 shekels of silver, |
| reverse 9' | Fingernail of Nabû-bl-ahheu |
| obverse 3 | the house, the share of Nabû-bl-ahheu |
| obverse 15 | He is free from claims. |
| obverse 14 | he gave as the complete price the silver. |
| obverse 7 | with Nabû-bl-ahheu, son of a-Muntiu |
| obverse 8 | Nebuchadnezzar, son of Kidin-Sîn |
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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