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AchHist 15, 167 (P521621)

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

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DesignationAchHist 15, 167
IDP521621
Museum no.BM 026657
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 [0:4] 11–44[x]+1,000 bricks, property of Nabû “King-of-the-World,” are owed to Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Aplā/Rēʾi-alpi by Nabû-nādin-ahi/Nabû-šumu-iškun/Rēš-ummāni.
Obverse [4:8] 55–88Nabû-nādin-ahi will register (the bricks) in the ledger of Ezida and give (proof of it) to Nabû-mukīn-zēri.
Obverse [7:10] 88–1010Witnesses: Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Zēr-Bābili[/Nappāhu], Nabû-nā[din-ahi/Ard]ia/Ibnāya.
Obverse [10:12] 1111–1212Scribe: [x]-iddin/Tabnēa/Kudurrānu.
Obverse [12:14] 1313–1414Borsippa, Camb 13-XI-06.

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] LIM SIG₄.HI.A NIG₂.GA {d}AG.MAN.ŠU₂
2[ša₂] {m}{d}AG-GIN-NUMUN A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}ap-la-a
3A {lu₂}SIPA.GUD.ME ina UGU {m}{d}AG-na-din-ŠEŠ
4A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}AG-MU-GAR{un} A {lu₂}SAG-ERIN₂{ni}
5ina UGU {giš}le-u₅ ša₂ E₂.ZI.DA
6{m}{d}AG-na-din-ŠEŠ u₂-ša₂-az-zu-ma
7a-na {m}{d}AG-GIN-NUMUN i-nam-din
8{lu₂}mu-kin-[nu] {m}{d}AG-GIN-NUMUN A-šu₂ ša₂
9{m}NUMUN-TIN.TIR{[ki} A {lu₂}SIMUG]
10{m}{d}AG-na-[din-ŠEŠ A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}IR₃]-ia A {m}DU₃-a-a
11{lu₂}DUB.SAR {[m}x-x]-MU A-šu₂ ša₂
12{m}tab-ne₂-e-[a A {m}ku-du]-ra-nu
13BARA₂.SIPA{ki} {[iti]}ZIZ₂ UD 13-KAM
14MU 6-KAM {[m}kam-bu]-zi-ia LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki}
15LUGAL KUR.KUR

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