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TMH 10, 012 (P503166)

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

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Designation	TMH 10, 012
ID	P503166
Museum no.	HS 2084
Collection	Hilprecht Collection, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
Language	Sumerian
Period	Early Old Babylonian · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE
Genre	Legal
Find spot	Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Coordinates	32.1271, 45.2300

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	1(disz) {gesz}gu-za ma2-lah6#	1 throne of the boatman
2	1(disz) {gesz}gu-za al-tur-ra	1 chair, small,
3	1(disz) {gesz}har{ar} muszen-na	1 bird-harbor,
4	1(disz) {gesz}dili2 {gesz}szinig	1 single tamarisk
5	1(disz) {gesz}al 1(disz) {gi!}pisan tug2 ASZ	1 hoe, 1 basket of AŠ textiles,
6	1(disz) {gesz}ig ze2-na	1 door, ze-na,
7	1(disz) {gesz}tukul LUM	1 weapon of dates,
8	1(disz) szah{+ze2?} tur	1 small pig
9	ki-ba-gar {gesz}bunin2-sze3	to the “Kibagar of the Bunin-tree’;
10	1(disz) {na4}na za3-hi-li	1 zaḫili stone
11	1(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar masz2 nu-ub-tuku	1 shekel of silver without interest
12	dumu-munus la-ab-na	daughter of Labna
13	2(asz) sze gur masz2 1(asz) gur 1(barig)	2 gur of barley, an interest rate of 1 barig per 1 gur
14	{d}en-ki-gal-zu	Enkigalzu
15	4(barig) sze sa10	4 barig barley, exchanged
16	{na4}kin2 zi-bi2 szu-SZU? nu-ub-tuku	the zibu stone had no hand
reverse
1	1/3(disz)# gin2# ku3-babbar lu2-{d}nin-[...]	1/3 shekel of silver: Lu-Nin-
2	2(disz) {gesz}guszur ki lu2-{d}en-ki	2 bows with Lu-Enki,
3	3(disz) sar IM ki lugal-nesag-e	3 sar of tablet from Lugal-nesage,
4	e2 u3 a-sza3 x [...] na-me-a-bi#	The house and the field ... are none
5	1(disz) lugal-apin u3 dingir-mu#-de3#	1: Lugal-apin and Dingir-mude
6	tesz2-a se3-ga-bi i3-ba-e-ne?	they will divide equally among themselves.
7	u4-kur2-sze3	in the future
8	1(disz) dingir-mu-de3 lugal-apin-ra	1 Dingir-mude, Lugal-apina
9	inim nu-um-ga2-ga2-a	shall not raise a claim
10	mu lugal-bi in-pa3	he has sworn by the name of the king.
11	igi ha-an-nu-um-ba-ni maszkim-sze3	before Ḫannum-bani, the responsible official
12	igi bur-{d}iszkur gudu4 {d}iszkur-sze3	before Bur-Addu, gudug priest of Addu
13	igi i-pi2-iq-esz18-dar dumu sza-at-{d}suen	before Ipiq-ištar, son of Šat-Sîn
14	igi lu2-{d}en-ki dumu KA-{d}en-lil2-la2-sze3	before Lu-Enki, son of KA-Enlila
15	igi# lu2-{d}mar-tu a-u3-sze3	before Lu-Amurrum, to the a’u
16	[igi] lu2-{d}inanna dub-sar-sze3	before Lu-Inanna, the scribe
17	iti# sig4-a u4 1(u)-kam	The month of Simanu, the day 10
18	[mu] {d#}ur-{d}nin-urta [a-sza3] <<a>> a-gar3 gal-gal a#-ta im-ta-an-e11	year: “Ur-Ninurta brought out from the water a field, a large meadow.
seal 1
1	dingir-mu-de4	to Dingir-mude
2	dumu dingir-ma-lik	son of Dingir-malik
seal 2
1	lugal-apin	Lugal-apin
2	dumu dingir-ma-lik	son of Dingir-malik

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)
electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)

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