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Edinburgh 50 (P453227)

Legal, Early Old Babylonian, Kish · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE

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Designation	Edinburgh 50
ID	P453227
Museum no.	NMS A.1911.203.22
Collection	National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Early Old Babylonian · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE
Genre	Legal
Find spot	Kish (mod. Tell Uhaimir)
Coordinates	32.5520, 44.5853

Transliteration (ATF)

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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)
obverse
1	_4(asz) gur sze masz2 nu-tuku_	4 gur of barley without interest
2	_ki_ szum-szu-nu-wa-tar2	from Sumšunu-watar
3	{d}utu-ma-an-szum2	Utu-manšum
4	_dumu_ i3-li2-ki-ti	son of Ilī-kitti,
5	_szu ba-an-ti#_	received
reverse
1	_u4 buru14-sze3 i3-ag2-e#_	at harvest time he will measure out.
2	_igi_ i3-li2-ki-ti	before Ilī-kitti,
3	_igi_ isz-me-{d}suen	before Išme-Sin
4	_igi_ i-di-isz-{d}za-ba4-ba4	before Idiš-Zababa
5	_igi_ im-di-er3-ra	before Imdi-Erra
6	_iti udru{duru5} mu us2-sa {kusz}a2-la2 mu-na-an-dim2_	The month of Šabaṭu, the year following: “The sandals he fashioned for him.‭
seal 1
1	{d}utu-ma-an-szum2	Utu-manšum
2	dumu i3-li2-ki-ti	son of Ilī-kitti.

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