Education in the Earliest Schools 176 (P388376)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Education in the Earliest Schools 176 |
|---|---|
| ID | P388376 |
| Museum no. | SC 3, 024e |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | Dannu-Erra and Nur-Ištar received [x] mina(s) of silver from Lu-Asarluhi, |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | as its interest |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | 24 iku of a reed thicket (?), |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | (it’s) the intermediate space between the field of the owner |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | and the field of Inimdiŋira, |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | the field of Dannu-Erra and Nur-Ištar |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | will serve as a pledge. |
| Obverse [12:15] o 1313–o 1515 | If their field will not be irrigated, |
| Obverse [15:18] o 1616– | an interest of 1/3 mina per 1 mina of silver will be added. |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | Lu-Asarluhi has to work with the hoe the half of the lenght of that field. |
| Reverse [5:8] r 66–r 88 | When they bring the silver, they ... their field. |
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 | [n] ma-na kug-babbar | |
| 2 | ki lu₂-{⸢d⸣}asar-lu₂-hi | |
| 3 | {m}dan-⸢nu⸣-er₃-ra | |
| 4 | u₃ nu-ur₂-{d}INANA | |
| 5 | šu ba-an-ti-me-eš | |
| 6 | maš₂-bi-še₃ | |
| 7 | 1(bur₃) 1(eše₃) iku a-šag₄ šub₅ še | |
| 8 | dal-ba-na a-šag₄ lugal-la-ta | |
| 9 | u₃ a-šag₄ inim-diŋir-ra | |
| 10 | a-šag₄ dan-er₃-ra | |
| 11 | u₃ ⸢nu-ur₂⸣-{d}INANA | |
| 12 | kug-ta ib₂-ta-[gub-bu] | |
| 13 | tukum-bi | |
| 14 | a-šag₄-ga-ne-ne | |
| 15 | a la-ba-an-⸢de₂⸣ | |
| 16 | maš₂ 1 ma-na 1/3 ma-⸢na-ta⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ba-ab-tah-e | |
| 2 | daŋal a-šag₄-ga-bi | |
| 3 | šu-ri-a-bi | |
| 4 | {m}lu₂-{d}asar-lu₂-hi | |
| 5 | al ak-en | |
| 6 | ud kug mu-un-tum₃-tum₃ | |
| 7 | ⸢a-šag₄⸣-ga-ne-⸢ne⸣ [...] | |
| 8 | bi₂-in-⸢na-gub-ba⸣-am₃ | |
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