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BE 10, 001 (P453359)

Legal, Achaemenid, Nippur · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE

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Designation	BE 10, 001
ID	P453359
Museum no.	unknown
Collection	H. V. Hilprecht
Language	Akkadian
Period	Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
Genre	Legal
Find spot	Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Coordinates	32.1271, 45.2300

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)
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1	E₂ ša₂ ina muh-hi a-ra-am-mu ša₂ {[d}EN] DA E₂	That house on the Arammu of Bel next to the house
2	{m}za-ta-me-e ša₂ {m}ap-la-a DUMU ša₂ {m}har-ma-hi-iʾ	Zatamê, son of Apla, descendant of Ḫarmaḫi-al;
3	a-na i-di E₂ TA UD 4-KAM ša₂ {iti}ZIZ₂ a-di UGU	From the 4th day of Šabaṭu until
4	a-ṣe-e LUGAL a-na 1 1/2 MA.NA KU₃.BABBAR BABBAR{u₂} a-na	the king’s share for 1 1/2 minas of white silver
5	{m}{d}EN.LIL₂-MU-MU DUMU ša₂ {m}mu-ra-šu-u₂ id-din	Enlil-šuma-iddin, the son of Murashu, gave.
6	KU₃.BABBAR aʾ 1 1/2 MA.NA i-di E₂-šu₂ ša₂ a-di muh-hi	The silver is equal to 1 1/2 minas, the rent of his house up to
7	a-ṣe-e LUGAL {m}ap-la-a ina ŠU.II {m}{d}EN.LIL₂-MU-MU	king Aplâ from Enlil-šuma-iddin
8	ma-hi-ir pu-ut la pa-qa-ri ša₂ E₂ MU.MEŠ	It is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void.
9	{m}ap-la-a DUMU ša₂ {m}har-ma-hi-iʾ na-ši	Aplâ, son of Harmaḫiyal, is responsible.
10	ki-i E₂ ina ŠU.II {m}{d}EN.LIL₂-MU-MU paq-ri	When the house is in the charge of Enlil-šuma-iddin, it is entrusted.
11	[KU₃.BABBAR] aʾ 1 1/2 MA.NA {m}ap-la-a u₂-ta-ri-ma	he returned the silver equal to 1 1/2 minas of Aplâ and
12	[a]-na {m}{d}EN.LIL₂-MU-MU i-nam-din u₃ di-ib-bi-šu₂	to Enlil-šuma-iddin he will give and his words
13	[i-na] muh-hi i-di E₂ KI {m}{d}EN.LIL₂-MU-MU	on the rent of the house with Enlil-šuma-iddin
14	ia-a-nu	there is none
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15	{lu₂}mu-kin-nu {m}{d}za-ba₄-<ba₄>-MU u {m}{d}EN-SIPA{uʾ}šu₂-nu	Witnesses: Zababa-iddin and Bel-rēšunu
16	DUMU-MEŠ ša₂ {m}ba-la-ṭu {m}{d}NA₃-TIN{su}E DUMU ša₂	sons of Balaṭu, Nabu-balassu-iqbi, son of
17	{m}ŠEŠ{u₂-tu₂} {m}{d}EN-A-MU DUMU ša₂ {m}{d}EN-SUR{ru}	Bel-apla-iddin, son of Bel-eṭir,
18	{m}{d}EN-URU₃-šu₂ DUMU ša₂ {m}{d}EN-SUM.NA	Bel-uṣuršu, son of Bel-iddin
19	{m}za-bi-i-ni DUMU ša₂ {m}bil-la-e	Zabini, son of Billâ
20	{m}{d}NA₃-TIN{su}E DUMU ša₂ {m}{d}EN-ik-ṣur	Nabu-balassu-iqbi, son of Bel-ikṣur
21	{m}{d}EN-A-URU₃ DUB.SAR DUMU ša₂ {m}ni-din-tu₂-{d}EN TIN.TIR{ki}	Bel-aplu-uṣur the scribe, son of Nidintu-Bel Babylon
22	{iti}ZIZ₂ UD 4-KAM MU.SAG {m}da-ri-ia-muš LUGAL KUR.KUR	Month Šabaṭu (XI), 4th day, eponym year of Darius, king of the lands.
23	[ṣu]-<pur> {m}ap-la-a	Fingernail of Aplâ.

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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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