AchHist 15, 140 (P404849)
Receipt, Neo-Babylonian, Borsippa · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | AchHist 15, 140 |
|---|---|
| ID | P404849 |
| Museum no. | BM 026705 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Receipt |
| Find spot | Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud) |
| Coordinates | 32.3924, 44.3434 |
English translation
By ORACC project borsippa · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] 11–55 | 32½ š silver, property of Nabû “King-of-the-World,” which was sent for bricks for the wall of Ezida along the bank of the river to the workers of "one cubit" of month I through Nabû-šāpik-zēri/Nabû-šumu-uṣur/Rēʾi-alpi and Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Aplā: |
| Obverse [5:13] 66–1313 | Of this amount Nabû-šāpik-zēri received 16¼ š silver for his ‘one cubit’, (and) Aplā/Rēmūt-Gula and Nabû-šumu-iddin/Nabû-zēru-ukīn and the workers of their "one cubits" received 16¼ š silver from Nabû-šāpik-zēri and Nabû-mukīn-zēri. |
| Obverse [11:15] 1212–1515 | Witnesses: Nabû-ēṭer-napšāti/Zēr-kitti-līšir/Rēʾi-alpi, Šamaš-uballiṭ/Marduk-šākin-šumi/Ilia, Šūzubu/Tabnēa/Rīšāya. |
| Obverse [15:16] 1616–1616 | Scribe: Rēmūt-Nabû/Nabû-ēṭer-napšāti/Rēʾi-alpi. |
| Obverse [16:17] 1717–1717 | Borsippa, Ner 21-II-02.1 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/2 MA.NA 2 1/2 GIN₂ KU₃.BABBAR NIG₂.GA {d}PA.MAN.ŠU₂ | |
| 2 | ša₂ a-na SIG₄.HI.A ša₂ šid-du ša₂ E₂.ZI.DA | |
| 3 | ša₂ GU₂ ID₂ ina ŠU-MIN {m}{d}AG-DUB-NUMUN A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}AG-MU-URU₃ | |
| 4 | A {lu₂}SIPA.GUD u {m}{d}AG-GIN-NUMUN A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}A{a} | |
| 5 | a-na ERIN₂-MEŠ ša₂ 1 KUŠ₃ ša₂ {iti}BARA₂ šu-bu-lu | |
| 6 | ina lib₃-bi 16 GIN₂ 4{tu₂} KU₃.BABBAR ša₂ 1 KUŠ₃-šu₂ {m}{d}AG-DUB-NUMUN | |
| 7 | A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}AG-MU-URU₃ ma-hir 16 GIN₂ 4{tu₂} KU₃.BABBAR | |
| 8 | {m}ap-la-a A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}re-mut-{d}ME.ME u {m}{d}AG-MU-MU | |
| 9 | A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}AG-NUMUN-GIN u ERIN₂-MEŠ ša₂ 1 KUŠ₃-MEŠ-šu₂-nu | |
| 10 | ina ŠU-MIN {m}{d}AG-DUB-NUMUN u {m}{d}AG-GIN-NUMUN | |
| 11 | mah-ru-uʾ | |
| 12 | {lu₂}mu-kin-nu {m}{d}AG-KAR-ZI-MEŠ A-šu₂ | |
| 13 | ša₂ {m}NUMUN-kit-ti-SI.SA₂ A {lu₂}SIPA.GUD | |
| 14 | {m}{d}UTU-TIN{iṭ} A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}AMAR.UTU-GAR-MU A {m}DINGIR-ia₂ | |
| 15 | {m}šu-zu-bu A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}tab-ne₂-e-a A {m}SUD-u₂-a | |
| 16 | {lu₂}UMBISAG {m}re-mut-{d}AG A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}AG-KAR-ZI-MEŠ | |
| 17 | A {lu₂}SIPA.GUD BARA₂.SIPA{ki} {iti}GU₄ | |
| 18 | UD 21-KAM MU 2-KAM {d}U.GUR-LUGAL-URU₃ | |
| 19 | LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} |
Sources & licences
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