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Camb. 117 (P404996)
Lease Contracts, Achaemenid, Babylon · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | Camb. 117 |
|---|---|
| ID | P404996 |
| Museum no. | BM 030299 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE |
| Genre | Lease Contracts |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | E₂ ša₂ IGI a-bu-ru-gi-iš | That house before Aburu-gišu |
| 2 | ša₂ {m}KI-{d}AMAR.UTU-TIN A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}NA₃-ŠEŠ-MEŠ-MU | From Itti-Marduk-balaṭu, son of Nabu-nādin-šumi. |
| 3 | A {m}e-gi-bi a-na i-di E₂ | son of Egibi, for the rent of the house |
| 4 | a-na MU.AN.NA 1/3 MA.NA 3 GIN₂ KU₃.BABBAR | For a year 1/3 mina 3 shekels of silver |
| 5 | a-na {m}gi-mil-lu A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}DUB-NUMUN | to Gimillu, son of Šapik-zeri |
| 6 | A {lu₂}ŠU.HA id-din bat-qa a-su-ru-u₂ | from the Baʾeru family, he gave. Any revocation, lawsuit or litigation is void. |
| 7 | i-ṣab-bat u₂-ru i-ša₂-ʾ-<an-na> {iti}BARA₂ | he will seize and the city will be settled. Nisan |
| 8 | {iti}ŠU u {iti}GAN nu-um-tu₄ | It was not present in Duʾuzu and Kislimu. |
| 9 | i-na-pu-ʾ a-hi KU₃.BABBAR re-eš MU.AN.NA | He will pay half of the silver at the beginning of the year. |
| 10 | u a-hi KU₃.BABBAR mi-šil šat-ta i-nam-din | and half of the silver, half of it he shall pay. |
| r | ||
| 11 | 5 GIN₂ KU₃.BABBAR ina i-di E₂-šu₂ ma-hi-ir | 5 shekels of silver from the rent of his house he received. |
| 12 | ul-tu UD 1-KAM {iti}KIN E₂ ina IGI | From the 1st day of Ululu the house is at the disposal of |
| 13 | {m}gi-mil-lu {giš}dal{al}ta-MEŠ ina lib₃-bi | Gimillu (and) the dalbaltu-wood in it |
| 14 | i-zaq-qa-ap a-na muh-hi {m}KI-{d}ŠU₂-TIN | shall raise a claim against Itti-Marduk-balaṭu |
| 15 | i-man-am-ma e-lat 7 GIN₂ 4-tu₂ KU₃.BABBAR | he will pay back 7 1/4 shekels of silver. |
| 16 | ša₂ ina IGI {m}MU-GI.NA {lu₂}mu-kin-nu | which is at the disposal of Šuma-ukin, the scribe |
| 17 | {m}IR₃-{d}gu-la A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}NA₃-mu-še(ZIB-)<tiq>-UD.DA | Arad-Gula, son of Nabu-mušetiq-udde |
| 18 | [A] {lu₂}dam-qa {lu₂}UMBISAG {m}{d}U.GUR-GI A-šu₂ ša₂ | descendant of Damqa Scribe: Nergal-ušallim, son of |
| 19 | {⸢m⸣}{d}EN-MU E{ki} {iti}NE UD 16-KAM₂ | Bel-iddin of Babylon, 16th day of Abu |
| 20 | MU 2-KAM₂ {m}kam-bu-zi-ia₂ LUGAL E{ki} | year 2 of Cambyses, king of Babylon. |
| 21 | u KUR.KUR 1{en}a-ta-ma il-te-qu-u₂ | and all the lands have each taken (a copy of the document). |
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)
- Linguistically Annotated Achemenet Babylonian Texts (Univ. Helsinki) · CC BY 4.0 · Alstola, T., Sahala, A., Valk, J., Ong, M. (2025). Linguistically Annotated Achemenet Babylonian Texts v1.1.0. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.17651786
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