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MHET 2/4, 504 (P509883)
Legal, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | MHET 2/4, 504 |
|---|---|
| ID | P509883 |
| Museum no. | BM 017319 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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(iku) GAN2# 2(u) 5(disz) sar a-sza3_ | 1 iku 25 sar field |
| 2 | u2#-sal# {i7}he2-gal2 | grass of the Hegal canal |
| 3 | a#-na#? _im-si-sa2_ | to the foot |
| 4 | i-ta _a#-sza3# dumu-munus_ i-ku-un-pi4-{d}suen | adjacent to the field of the daughter of Ikūn-pî-Sin |
| 5 | sza i-na x _kaskal?_ hi-ir-ri-tum# | who on a hirittu road |
| 6 | i-ta x x x _lukur_ {d}utu sza x [...] | ... nadītu of Šamaš who ... |
| 7 | u3 i-ta _dumu-munus_ {d}suen-ba-ni _ugula dam-gar3_ | and from the daughter of Sîn-bani the foreman of merchants |
| 8 | _sag-1(disz)-kam-ma_ {i7}he2-gal2 | the first (of which followed the 30th of the preceding month). The Hegal canal |
| 9 | _sag-bi 2(disz)-kam-ma kaskal_ hi-ri-tum | Its second head is the road to Hiritum. |
| 10 | sza _ki_ i-din-za-ba4-ba4 | from Iddin-Zababa |
| 11 | _dumu_ ib-ni-{d}marduk | son of Ibni-Marduk, |
| 12 | {disz}utu#-mu-sza-lim _ga2-dub-ba_ [...] | Šamaš-mušallim, the scribal apprentice |
| 13 | [dumu] gi-mil-{d}marduk | son of Gimil-Marduk |
| 14 | i#-sza#-mu | he will pay. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | _iti bara2-za3-gar [u4-n(disz)-kam]_ | The month of Nisannu, the day n |
| 2 | _mu_ am-mi-s,a-du-qa2 _lugal [...] szu-nir ku3 gal-gal-la [...] e2-sag-il2 in-ne-en-[...]_ | The year in which Ammi-shaduqa, the king, ... the great scepter of silver ... E-sagil ... |
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