Education in the Earliest Schools 179 (P388580)
School, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Education in the Earliest Schools 179 |
|---|---|
| ID | P388580 |
| Museum no. | PARS 12/01, 141 |
| Collection | Cotsen Collection of Cuneiform Tablets, Special Collections, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | School |
| 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 | 6 1/2 shekels and 16 grains of silver, |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | an interest of 16 grains per 1 shekel will be added, |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | Ilšu-abūšu and Nin-Azu, his wife, received from Diŋir-manšum; |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | they will weigh the silver in the third month. |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | if a claim will be raised, they will not transgress (the agreement): |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | they have sworn by the name of the king. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | The 15th day has passed; long tablet of Irībam; ... small tablet (hand-tablet). |
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 | (6.1/2) giŋ₄ 16 še kug-babbar | |
| 2 | maš₂ 1 giŋ₄ igi 6-ŋal₂ 6 še-kam | |
| 3 | ba-ab-tah-e | |
| 4 | ki diŋir-ma-an-šum₂ | |
| 5 | {m}il-šu-a-bu-šu | |
| 6 | u₃ nin-{d}a-zu dam-a-ni | |
| 7 | šu ba-an-ti-meš | |
| 8 | {iti}šeg₁₂-a kug i₃-la₂-e-ne | |
| 9 | ud inim ŋa₂-ŋa₂ | |
| 10 | nu-ib₂-ta-bala-e-ne | |
| 11 | mu lugal-la-bi in-pad₃-de₃-eš | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ud 15-⸢kam⸣ ba-zal-zal | |
| 2 | im-gid₂-da i-ri-ba-⸢am⸣ | |
| 3 | ⸢x x⸣ im-šu | |
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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