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AchHist 15, 126 (P521612)

Legal, Achaemenid, Borsippa · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE

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DesignationAchHist 15, 126
IDP521612
Museum no.BM 025857
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodAchaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
GenreLegal
Find spotBorsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)
Coordinates32.3924, 44.3434

English translation

By ORACC project borsippa · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:5] 11–55[x š] silver, remainder of the price of a 1/3? [day(?)] of the butcher’s prebend of Ezida, temple of Nabû, of Nabû-ēṭer-napšāti/Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Ibnāya, due from Nabû-nādin-ahi/[Nabû-aplu-iddin/Ib]nāya.
Obverse [5:11] 66–1111Nabû-nādin-ahi will pay the silver to Nabû-ēṭer-napšāti in month VIII.
Obverse [9:14] 1010–1414Witnesses: Nabû-šumu-iddin/Šamaš-ahhē-uṣur/Mannu-gērûšu, Nabû-aplu-iddin/Nabû-bāni-zēri/Kidin-Sîn.
Obverse [13:14] 1414–1414Scribe: Itti-Nabû-balāṭu/Nabû-ina-tēšî-ēṭer/Ilia.
Obverse [14:15] 1515–1515Borsippa, Cyr [x]-VIII-06. 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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1[x GIN₂] KU₃.BABBAR ri-hi-it ŠAM₂ šal-[šu₂]
2[u₄-mu] i-na GIŠ.ŠUB.BA {lu₂}GIR₂.LA₂-u₂-tu
3ša₂ E₂.ZI.DA E₂ {d}AG ša₂ {m}{d}AG-KAR-ZI-MEŠ
4A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}AG-GIN-NUMUN A {m}DU₃-a-a
5ina UGU {m}{d}AG-na-din-ŠEŠ A-šu₂ ša₂
6{[m}{d}AG-A-MU A {m}ib-na]-a-a ina {iti}APIN
7[KU₃.BABBAR a₄ x GIN₂] {m}{d}AG-na-din-ŠEŠ
8[a-na {m}{d}AG]-⸢KAR⸣-ZI-MEŠ
9i-nam-din
10{lu₂}mu-kin-nu {m}{d}AG-MU-MU [A-šu₂ ša₂]
11{m}{d}UTU-ŠEŠ-MEŠ-URU₃ A {m}man-nu-ge-[ru]-šu₂
12{m}{d}AG-A-MU A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}AG-DU₃-NUMUN
13{m}ki-din-{d}30
14{lu₂}UMBISAG {m}KI-{d}AG-TIN A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}AG-ina-SUH₃-SUR
15[A] {m}DINGIR-ia BARA₂.SIPA{ki} {iti}APIN
16[UD.x]-KAM MU 6-KAM kur-ra-aš₂
17[LUGAL TIN].TIR{ki} LUGAL KUR.KUR

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