AchHist 15, 162 (P521617)
Business / Contracts, Achaemenid, Borsippa · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | AchHist 15, 162 |
|---|---|
| ID | P521617 |
| Museum no. | BM 082686 |
| 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 [0:4] 11–44 | Rēmūt-Nabû/Nabû-ēṭer-napšāti/Rēʾi-alpi spoke as follows to his brother Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Aplā/Rēʾi-alpi: “I am incapabale (of work), and I am sick, and my sons are little, and all the washing with wa[ter], the meal of Nabû, and the feeding and guarding of the cattle [(and ...) I cannot do]. |
| Obverse [4:8] 55–3'3' | [...] months in [... large gap]. |
| Obverse [6:7] 2'2'–2'2' | Nabû-zēru-līšir (shares?) with the sons of Rēmūt-Nabû//Rēʾi-alpi, the seller of the prebend. |
| Obverse [7:8] 3'3'–3'3' | Scribe: Nabû-erība/Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Rēʾi-alpi. |
| Obverse [8:9] 4'4'–4'4' | Borsippa, [Camb] 05-III-05. 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}re-mut-{d}AG A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}AG-SUR-ZI-MEŠ A {lu₂}SIPA.GUD-MEŠ a-na {m}{d}AG-GIN-NUMUN A-šu₂ [ša₂] | |
| 2 | {m}ap-la-a A {lu₂}SIPA.GUD.ME ŠEŠ-šu₂ ki-a-am iq-bi um-ma sa-ma-a-ka | |
| 3 | u₃ mar-ṣa-mar u₃ {lu₂}DUMU-MEŠ-ia ṣa-har-ru-uʾ-ma ma-la <ra-ma>-ku A-[MEŠ] | |
| 4 | nap-ta-nu ša₂ {d}AG u₃ šu-ku-lu u₃ ma-aṣ-ṣar-tu₄ ša₂ GUD bu-u₂-[x x x x] | |
| 5 | [x x x x x] ITI-MEŠ i-na [x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 1' | [x x x] | |
| 2' | {[m}{d}AG]-NUMUN-SI.SA₂ KI DUMU-MEŠ ša₂ {m}re-mut-{d}AG A {lu₂}SIPA.GUD-MEŠ na-di-na-nu | |
| 3' | GIŠ.ŠUB.BA {lu₂}DUB.SAR {m}{d}AG-SU A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}AG-GIN-NUMUN A {lu₂}SIPA.GUD-MEŠ | |
| 4' | BARA₂.SIPA{ki} {iti}SIG₄ UD 5-KAM MU 5-KAM {[m}kam-bu-zi-ia LUGAL E{ki} u KUR.KUR-MEŠ] |
Sources & licences
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