Education in the Earliest Schools 053 (P388287)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Education in the Earliest Schools 053 |
|---|---|
| ID | P388287 |
| Museum no. | SC 3, 024d |
| Collection | Cotsen Collection of Cuneiform Tablets, Special Collections, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
English translation
By Wilson, Mark · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | 2 and 2/3 minas, 6 and 2/3 shekels (and) 15 grains of silver |
| Obverse [1:4] o 22–o 44 | in order to buy copper, kalaga-stone, and (other) little things, |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55–o 88 | Kug-Ninsia’anak and Lu-Nanna received from the king. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | When the king asks for it |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | they will give it (back) to him. |
| Obverse [10:13] o 1111–o 1313 | He (the king) will take it (the money) from the financially sound and legally responsible one. |
| Obverse [13:19] o 1414– | Uršugalama received 1 mina of silver from Nabkina in order to do a work. |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | Uršugalama will satisfy the heart of Nabkina by doing the work (for which he has been paid). |
| Reverse [5:8] r 66– | Its witnesses, its month, its year. |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | (2.2/3) ma-na (6.2/3) giŋ₄ 15 še kug-babbar | |
| 2 | nam urudu sa₁₀-sa₁₀-de₃ | |
| 3 | nam {na₄}kalag-ga | |
| 4 | u₃ sa₁₀ niŋ₂ tur-tur | |
| 5 | ki lugal-la-ta | |
| 6 | {m}kug-{d}nin-si-an-na | |
| 7 | u₃ lu₂-{d}nanna | |
| 8 | šu ba-an-ti-me-eš | |
| 9 | ud lugal-e an-na-ab-be₂-a | |
| 10 | in-na-ab-šum₂-mu-uš | |
| 11 | ki lu₂ silim-ma-ta | |
| 12 | u₃ lu₂ gi-na-ta | |
| 13 | šu ba-ab-te-ŋa₂ | |
| 14 | 1 ma-na kug-babbar | |
| 15 | kiŋ₂ ak-de₃ | |
| 16 | ki nab-ki-na | |
| 17 | {m}ur-šu-galam-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1 | šu ba-an-ti | |
| 2 | kiŋ₂ ak-de₃ | |
| 3 | šag₄ nab-ki-na | |
| 4 | {m}ur-šu-galam-ma | |
| 5 | bi₂-⸢ib⸣-dug₃-ge | |
| 6 | lu₂-⸢ki⸣-inim-ma | |
| 7 | itud-bi mu-bi | |
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)
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