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TMH 10, 001a (P503174)
Business / Contracts, Early Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE
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| Designation | TMH 10, 001a |
|---|---|
| ID | P503174 |
| Museum no. | HS 2119 + HS 2329 + HS 2424 |
| Collection | Hilprecht Collection, University of Jena, Jena, Germany |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Early Old Babylonian · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
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 | {disz}{d}suen-i-qi2-sza#-am# [dumu {d}]szul#-pa#-e3#-a2-ag2# | Sîn-iqīšam, son of Šulpae-ayag |
| 2 | [{disz}{d}nin-lil2-nin-am3 dumu-munus i3-li2]-ki#!-it#-[ti] | Ninlil-ninam, daughter of Ili-kitti |
| 3 | nam#-dam#-sze3# in#-tuku#-am3 | has married as a wife |
| 4 | mu lugal-ka-ni in#-pa3 | he swore by the name of his king. |
| 5 | 2(iku) GAN2 a-sza3 egir szum2-la2 | 2 iku of field behind the threshing floor, |
| 6 | 1(esze3) GAN2 a-sza3 a-gar3 {d}lu2-lal3 | 1 eše3 field, meadow of Lullal; |
| 7 | [1(disz)] gu4 gesz-du3-a | 1 ox, a regular offering |
| 8 | [{disz}]{d}suen-i-qi2-sza-am | Sin-iqišam |
| 9 | {d#}nin-lil2-nin-am3! dam-na-ra# | For Ninlil-ninam, her spouse |
| 10 | in#-na-an-ku4?-ku4? | he made enter for him |
| 11 | [{disz}]u#-bar#-[{d}]suen# ibila szesz-gal | Ubar-Sîn, heir of the great brother |
| 12 | [{disz}el]-mesz#-tum# lukur# {d#}nergal# | Elmeštum, nadītu of Nergal |
| 13 | [{disz}pi2]-s,i#-tum lukur {d}nin-urta | Piṣitum, nadītu of Ninurta |
| 14 | [u3 ibila a]-na#-me-a-bi | and all the heirs |
| 15 | [a-na-bi u3-tu-ud]-da | what did he give? |
| 16 | [ibila {disz}{d}suen-i-qi2-sza]-am# | heir of Sîn-iqišam |
| 17 | [u3 {d}nin-lil2-nin-am3 dam-na-a-ra] | and Ninlil-ninam, her spouse |
| 18 | [e2 a-sza3 nig2-gur11 e2-a gal2-la] | house, field, property of the house |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [a-na-me-a-bi nig2-gur11 {d}suen-i-qi2-sza]-am# | all this is the property of Sîn-iqīšam |
| 2 | u3 {d#}nin#-lil2#-nin#-am3# dam-na-ra | And for Ninlil-ninam, her spouse |
| 3 | tesz2-a se3-ga-bi i3-ba-e-ne | they will divide equally among themselves. |
| 4 | tukum-bi | If |
| 5 | {disz}{d}suen-i-qi2-sza-am {disz}{d}nin-lil2-nin-am3 dam-na-ra#? | Sîn-iqīšam for Ninlil-ninam his wife |
| 6 | dam#-mu# nu-me-en ba-na-an-du11 | I am not my spouse, she said to him |
| 7 | 1/2(disz)# ma-na ku3-babbar i3-la2-e | 1/2 mina of silver he shall pay. |
| 8 | u3# tukum!-bi {disz}{d}nin-lil2-nin-am3 | and if Ninlil-ninam |
| 9 | [{disz}]{d}suen-i-qi2-sza-am dam-na-ra | Sîn-iqīšam, his spouse |
| 10 | dam-mu nu-me-en ba-na-an-du11 | I am not my spouse, she said to him. |
| 11 | 1/2(disz) ma-na ku3-babbar i3-la2-e | he shall pay 1/2 mina of silver. |
| 12 | igi i3-li2-we-de-ku dumu {d}suen-i-din-nam | before Ili-wedeku, son of Sîn-iddinam |
| 13 | igi {d}nanna-a-a dumu asz2?-ka-a | before Nanna-aya, son of Aška |
| 14 | igi nig2-gur11-{d}nanna dumu {d}nanna-sag-kal | before Niggur-Nanna, son of Nanna-sagkal |
| 15 | igi# im#?-x-[...] x x x | Before ... |
| 16 | [...]-x-x dumu ur-ku3-zu? | ..., child of Ur-kuzu |
| 17 | [...]-x-it-ti dumu sa-mi-lum? | ..., son of Samil |
| 18 | iti sze#-sag11#-ku5# | month "Harvest," |
| 19 | mu {d}i-te-er-pi4-sza lugal-e li#-li-is3 zabar {d}inanna# zabala[{ki}-ra ...] | year: “Ite-erpiša the king lilis bronze Inanna of Zabalam |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | {d}nin-lil2-nin#-am3# | Ninlil-ninam |
| 2 | dumu-munus i3-[li2-ki-it-ti] | daughter of Ili-kitti |
| seal 2 | ||
| 1 | {d}suen#-i-qi2-sza-am | Sîn-iqišam |
| 2 | dumu# [{d}]szul#-pa-e3-[a2-ag2] | son of Šulpa’eag |
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)
- 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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