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TS 031 (P498188)
Purchase and sale contracts, Old Babylonian, Kutalla · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | TS 031 |
|---|---|
| ID | P498188 |
| Museum no. | BM 033171 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Purchase and sale contracts |
| Find spot | Kutalla (mod. Tell Sifr) |
| Coordinates | 31.2946, 45.9672 |
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 | [n sar] igi#-4(disz)-gal2 gin2 kislah | n sar, 1/4 shekel weight |
| 2 | [da e2] a-hu-ni | next to the house of Ahuni |
| 3 | [u3 da e2] szar-ru-ut-{d}suen | and next to the house of Šarrut-Sîn |
| 4 | ki# i3-li2-i-din-nam | from Ilī-iddinam |
| 5 | [u3] {d}utu-tu-ra-am | and Šamaš-turam |
| 6 | dumu a*-gu-u2-a | son of Agu'a |
| 7 | {disz}a-hu-ni dumu u2-ba-a-a | Ahuni, son of Ubaya |
| 8 | in-szi-sa10 | he bought. |
| 9 | 1(u) 2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar | 12 shekels of silver |
| 10 | sa10 til-la-ni-sze3 | as his full price |
| 11 | in-na-la2 | he has paid. |
| 12 | u4-kur2 lu2-u18-lu | the storm that the man |
| 13 | nu-mu-un-gi4-gi4-de3 | will not return. |
| 14 | mu {d}nanna {d}utu | year: “Nanna (and) Šamaš |
| 15 | u3 ri-im-{d}suen lugal in-pa3 | and Rīm-Sîn the king chose. |
| 16 | igi i3-li2-a-bi | before Ili-abī |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | igi lu2-{d}mar-tu dumu szu-{d}[...] | before Lu-Amurrum, son of Šu- |
| 2 | igi s,i-li2-isz8-tar2 dumu nu-ur2-[i3]-li2 | before Ṣillī-Ištar, son of Nur-ili |
| 3 | igi lu2-{d}en-lil2-la2 dumu a-pil!-sza-wa-qar | before Lu-Enlila, son of Apil-ša-waqar |
| 4 | [igi] nu-ur2-{d}mar-tu | before Nur-Amurru |
| 5 | dumu {d}suen-i-ri-ba-am | son of Sîn-iribam, |
| 6 | [igi {d}]suen-lu-ud-lu-ul szu-i | before Sîn-lud-lul |
| 7 | [igi {d}]suen#-sze-mi {lu2}azlag2 | before Sîn-šeme, the fuller |
| 8 | [igi {d}]suen#-gim*-la*-an*-ni* | before Sîn-gimlanni |
| 9 | [dumu] {d}suen-re-me-ni | son of Sîn-remeni |
| 10 | [igi {d?}]suen#?-i-qi2-sza-am nar* | before Sîn-iqīšam, singer |
| 11 | [...] x x x | |
| 12 | [...] pa an dim2? | ... made manifest(?) by An |
| 13 | [...] x | |
| 14 | [...] x | |
| left | ||
| 1 | [...] ki | ... place |
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)
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