AchHist 15, 079 (P521566)
Business / Contracts, Achaemenid, Borsippa · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | AchHist 15, 079 |
|---|---|
| ID | P521566 |
| Museum no. | BM 096226 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts |
| Find spot | Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud) |
| Coordinates | 32.3924, 44.3434 |
English translation
By ORACC project borsippa · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] 11–33 | [Nabû-bēl-māri son of PN of the family LN] will go to Elam with the assembly (kiništu) of Ezida on behalf of Nabû-bēl-šumāti [son of] Marduk-nāṣir of the Šēpê-ilia family. |
| Obverse [3:6] 44–66 | During four months he will work on the quay of the king, together with the bakers, on behalf of Nabû-bēl-šumāti and his workers. |
| Obverse [6:13] 77–1313 | Nabû-bēl-māri has received 1 m of coined silver, 0;3.2 barley, 0;3.2 flour, and 0;3.2 dates as his rations and equiment (rikis qabli) from [Šaddinnu], the overseer of the bakers, son of Balassu [from the Bēliya’u family]. |
| Obverse [11:12] 1212–1212 | Including 1/3 m of silver that Nabû-bēl-šumāti has paid and 10 š of silver of the ilku of Nabû-bēl-māri. (15) Witnesses: Nabû-x-šu/[PN]/Kidin-Sîn, [PN]/Nabû-lē’i/[LN], [remainder of rev. lost]. 1 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From 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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | {[m}{d}AG-EN-DUMU A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}x] | |
| 2 | [A x-x ana] UGU {m}{d}AG-EN-MU-MEŠ | |
| 3 | [A-šu₂ ša₂] {m}{d}AMAR.UTU-PAB A {m}GIR₃-MIN-DINGIR-ia₂ | |
| 4 | a-na {kur}NIM{ki} it-ti ki-na-al-[ti] | |
| 5 | ša₂ E₂.ZI.[DA] il-lak 4 ITI-[MEŠ] | |
| 6 | dul-lu ina ka-a-ri ša₂ LUGAL it-ti {lu₂}MU-[MEŠ] | |
| 7 | a-na muh-hi {m}{d}AG-EN-MU-MEŠ u {lu₂}ERIN₂-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 8 | ip-pu-uš 1 MA.NA KU₃.BABBAR ša₂ gin₃-ni | |
| 9 | 3 (PI) 2 BAN₂ ŠE.BAR 3 (PI) 2 BAN₂ qe₂-me 3 (PI) 2 BAN₂ ZU₂.LUM.[MA] | |
| 10 | ku-mu ŠUK.HI.A-šu₂ u ri-[kis qab-li-šu₂] | |
| 11 | {m}{d}AG-EN-DUMU ina ŠU-MIN {m}[šad-din-nu] | |
| 12 | {lu₂}PA {lu₂}MU-MEŠ A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}TIN-su [A {m}{d}EN-ia₂-u₂] | |
| 13 | ma-hir e-ṭir a-di 1/3 MA.NA KU₃.BABBAR | |
| 14 | ša₂ {m}{d}AG-EN-MU-MEŠ id-di-nu u₃ 10 GIN₂ KU₃.BABBAR | |
| 15 | il-ki ša₂ {m}{d}AG-EN-DUMU | |
| 16 | {lu₂}mu-kin-ni {m}{d}AG-x-x-šu₂ A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}[...] | |
| 17 | A {m}ki-din-{d}30 {m}[... A-šu₂] | |
| 18 | ša₂ {m}{d}AG-DA A {m}[...] |
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