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TS 002 (P498161)
Purchase and sale contracts, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | TS 002 |
|---|---|
| ID | P498161 |
| Museum no. | BM 033158 & BM 033158a |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Purchase and sale contracts |
| Find spot | Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) |
| Coordinates | 30.9607, 46.1063 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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 | 1(disz) sar 1(u) 6(disz) sze e2 du3-a | 1 sar 16 barley, built-up house; |
| 2 | da e2 {d}isztaran | next to the house of Ištaran, |
| 3 | u3 [an-da]-ku-ul-lum | and Adakulum |
| 4 | ki [ARAD-{d}]nanna* | from Warad-Nanna |
| 5 | [u3 a-ha-at-x-x?] dam-a-ni | and Aḫat-... his wife |
| 6 | {disz}[s,i-li2-{d}]gu#-la? | Ṣillī-Gula |
| 7 | [in-szi-sa10] | bought. |
| 8 | [1(u) 4(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar] | 14 shekels of silver |
| 9 | [sa10 til-la-ni-sze3] | for his full price |
| 10 | [in-na-an-la2] | he has paid. |
| 11 | [u4-kur2-sze3 ARAD-{d}nanna] | In the future, Warad-Nanna |
| 12 | [e2-mu nu-ub-be2-a] | does not speak my name |
| 13 | [mu lugal-bi in-pa3] | has sworn by the name of the king. |
| 14 | [igi] be-la#-[nu-um] | before Belanum |
| 15 | [igi] ig-mil-er3-ra | before Igmil-Erra |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | igi ga-mi-lum | before Gemilum |
| 2 | igi {d}suen-i-ri-ba-am | before Sîn-iribam |
| 3 | igi t,a3-ab-s,i-li2-a-szu | before Ṭab-ṣillī-ašu, |
| 4 | igi ha-zi-ru-um | before Ḫazirum |
| 5 | igi an-da-ku-ul-lum | before Andakulum |
| 6 | igi nu-ur2-{d}mar-tu aga-us2 lugal | before Nur-Amurrum, royal soldier |
| 7 | igi igi-mu | before Igi-mu |
| 8 | igi ARAD-{d}nanna | before Warad-Nanna |
| 9 | igi ib-ni-er3-ra | before Ibni-Erra |
| 10 | igi a-bi-t,a3-bu-um | before Abiṭābum |
| 11 | igi {d}nanna-me-du dub-sar | before Nanna-medu, the scribe |
| 12 | kiszib lu2-inim-ma-bi-me-esz | under seal of the witnesses; |
| 13 | iti gu4-si-sa2 | month: “Oxen-of-the-tablet,’ |
| 14 | mu e2 {d}en-ki sza3 larsa{ki} ba-du3 | year: “The house of Enki in Larsa was erected. |
| 1' | u3# x [x x]-ul!-lum | and ...-ullum |
| 2' | ki ARAD-{d}[nanna] | from Warad-Nanna |
| 3' | u3 a-ha-at-x-[x?] dam-a-ni | and Aḫat-, his wife |
| 4' | {disz}s,i-li2-{d}gu#-la | Ṣilli-Gula |
| 5' | in-szi-sa10 | he bought. |
| 6' | 1(u) 4(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar | 14 shekels of silver |
| 7' | sa10 til-la-ni-sze3 | as his full price |
| 8' | in-na-an-la2 | he has paid. |
| 9' | u4-kur2-sze3 ARAD-{d}nanna | In the future, Warad-Nanna |
| 10' | e2-mu nu-ub-be2-a | does not speak my name |
| 11' | mu lugal-bi in-pa3 | he has sworn by the name of the king. |
Sources & licences
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- 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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