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SANTAG 09, 256 (P503228)
Business / Contracts, Early Old Babylonian, Kisurra · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE
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| Designation | SANTAG 09, 256 |
|---|---|
| ID | P503228 |
| Museum no. | BM 085799 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Early Old Babylonian · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts |
| Find spot | Kisurra (mod. Abu Hatab) |
| Coordinates | 31.8383, 45.4810 |
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 | [x gur] sze ur5-ra sag | x gur barley, interest-bearing |
| 2 | masz2# [...] 1(barig) 4(ban2) ta | an interest rate of 100 sila per 1 barig is to be added |
| 3 | ki# [...] me?-pa?-u2-ma | Where ... is located, and |
| 4 | [...] x | |
| 5 | [...] ra | ... ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | szu ba-an-ti | received. |
| 2 | igi {d}suen-i-di2-na-am | before Sîn-iddinam |
| 3 | dumu szu-s,a-am-i3-li2 | son of Šuṣam-ilī |
| 4 | igi li-li-mi-il-ku | before Lili-milku |
| 5 | igi ma-nu-um-sza-ni-in-szu | before Mannum-šānišu |
| 6 | igi su2-ga-lum | before Sugalum |
| 7 | dumu a-ba-zi-im | son of Abazim |
| 8 | mu ti-lim-da ku3-babbar {d}sud mu-na-dim2 | year: “Tilimda, the silver of Sud, fashioned. |
| envelope | ||
| 1 | [...] | |
| 2 | [...]-bi [...] | ... its |
| 3 | ki# {d}[...] | with ... |
| 4 | [...] x-nu-[...] | ...-nu- |
| 5 | [...] ni esz? [...] | ... self(?) |
| 6 | szu# ba-an-[ti] | received |
| 7 | [igi {d}]suen#-i-di2#-[nam] | before Sîn-iddinam |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | [...] x [...] | |
| 2 | dumu i3-li2-[...] | son of Ilī- |
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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