Education in the Earliest Schools 177 (P388377)
Business / Contracts, Old Babylonian, Larsa (?) · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Education in the Earliest Schools 177 |
|---|---|
| ID | P388377 |
| Museum no. | SC 3, 024c |
| 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 | Larsa (?) |
| Coordinates | 31.2832, 45.8549 |
English translation
By Spada, Gabriella · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | Sîn-abūšu, |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | from Nūr-Ištar, his father, |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | and Šāt-Ninšubur, his mother, |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | Ilī-tūram and Šāt-Sîn, his wife, |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | have adopted as their son |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | (and) established as their heir. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | 5 shekels of silver, |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | for (the expenses incurred in) his raising |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | they (= Ilī-tūram and his wife) have weighed out to him (Nūr-Ištar). |
| Obverse [10:17] o 1111–o 1717 | In the future, if Sîn-abūšu says to Ilī-tūram, his father, and to Šāt-Sîn, his mother, “You are not my father!” (and), “You are not my mother!”, |
| Obverse [17:18] o 1818–o 1818 | they will shave (his) head (so that to) place the abbuttu (the characteristic hair style for slaves) on him, |
| Obverse [18:19] o 1919–o 1919 | (and) they will sell him. |
| Obverse [19:20] o 2020–o 2020 | And if Ilī-tūram |
| Obverse [20:21] o 2121–o 2121 | and Šāt-Sîn, his wife, |
| Obverse [21:25] o 2222– | say to Sîn-abūšu, their son, “You are not my son!”, |
| Reverse [1:4] r 22–r 44 | they shall forfeit house, field, orchard, female and male slaves, possessions and utensils, as much as there may be. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | They have sworn by the name of Nanna, Šamaš, and of the king Rīm-Sîn. |
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 | {m}{d}suen-a-bu-šu | |
| 2 | ki nu-ur₂-iš₈-tar₂ ad-da-ni | |
| 3 | u₃ ša-at-{d}nin-šubur ama-a-ni | |
| 4 | {m}i₃-li₂-tu-ra-am | |
| 5 | u₃ ša-at-{d}suen dam-a-ni | |
| 6 | nam-dumu-ni-še₃ ba-da-ri | |
| 7 | nam-ibila-ni-še₃ in-ŋar | |
| 8 | 5 giŋ₄ kug-babbar | |
| 9 | nam-buluŋ₃-ŋa₂-ni-še₃ | |
| 10 | ⸢in⸣-na-an-la₂ | |
| 11 | ud kur₂-⸢še₃⸣ tukum-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 12 | {m}{d}suen-a-bu-šu | |
| 13 | nam i₃-li₂-tu-ra-am ad-da-ni | |
| 14 | u₃ ša-at-{d}suen ama-a-ni | |
| 15 | ad-da-ŋu₁₀ nu-me-en | |
| 16 | ama-ŋu₁₀ nu-me-en | |
| 17 | ba-na-an-dug₄ | |
| 18 | umbin an-kud-da gar₃-ra-ni du₃-a | |
| 19 | nam-kug-še₃ ba-an-šum₂ | |
| 20 | u₃ tukum-bi i₃-li₂-tu-ra-am | |
| 21 | u₃ ša-at-{d}suen dam-a-ni | |
| 22 | nam {d}suen-a-bu-šu | |
| 23 | dumu-ne-ne dumu-ŋu₁₀ nu-me-en | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ba-an-na-an-dug₄ | |
| 2 | e₂ a-šag₄ {ŋeš}kiri₆ geme₂ arad | |
| 3 | niŋ₂-gur₁₁-ra u₃ {ŋeš}šu-kara₂ a-na ŋal₂-la | |
| 4 | ba-ra-an-ed₃-de₃ | |
| 5 | mu {d}nanna {d}utu u₃ {d}ri-im-{d}suen | |
| 6 | in-pad₃-da-eš | |
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