AchHist 15, 200 (P521651)
Business / Contracts, Achaemenid, Borsippa · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | AchHist 15, 200 |
|---|---|
| ID | P521651 |
| Museum no. | BM 082734 |
| 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 [0:1] 1'1'–1'1' | BM 82734 is a copy of a damaged original and the tablet is also itself damaged. It is not possible to offer a continuous translation, but the contents and purpose of the text are clear. |
| Obverse [1:2] 2'2'–2'2' | BM 82734 is a manzaltu contract, similar to AchHist 15, 191 (and duplicates), in which Rēmūt-Nabû/Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Rē’i-alpi hires somebody to perform the service of his oxherd prebend. The contracting party is Šamaš-iddin/Nabû-mušētiq-uddi/Rē’i-alpi and the number of days involved is 137. In addition to the panāt-ūmi, consisting of 3 litres of bread and 3 litres of beer a day (ll.11'-2'), Šamaš-iddin will receive 10 š of silver a year as a compensation for performing the prebend (ll.9'-10'). 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' | [UD] 25-[KAM ...] | |
| 2' | [UD] 7 UD 8 UD 10 UD 11 UD 12 UD 13 UD 14 | |
| 3' | [UD n UD n UD] 18 UD 20-1.LA₂-KAM PAB 11 u₄-[mu-MEŠ ša₂] {iti}ZIZ₂ | |
| 4' | {[iti]}ŠE UD 14-KAM PAB 1{en]} u₄-mu ša₂ {iti}ŠE PAB 137 [u₄]-mu-MEŠ | |
| 5' | hi-pi₂ A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}AG-GIN-NUMUN A {lu₂}SIPA.GUD-MEŠ | |
| 6' | a-di 3{ta} MU-MEŠ hi-pi₂ DIB-UD.DA A {lu₂}SIPA.GUD.ME | |
| 7' | iz-za-az-zu pu-ut qu-ru-ba nap-tan-nu u ma-<an>-za-aš₂-ti | |
| 8' | u₃ ma-aṣ-ṣar-ti ša₂ u₄-mu-MEŠ aʾ 137 hi-pi₂ | |
| 9' | ša₂ MU.AN.NA 10 GIN₂ KU₃.BABBAR BABBAR{u₂} nu-uh-hu-tu ku-um | |
| 10' | man-zal-la-a-tu₂ {m}re-mut-{d}AG a-na | |
| 11' | {m}{d}UTU-MU i-nam-din u₄-mu 3 SILA₃ ta-ak-ka-su-u₂ | |
| 12' | u₃ 3 SILA₃ KAŠ.SAG KAŠ ŠE.BAR pa-na-at u₄-mu-MEŠ a₄ | |
| 13' | 137 {m}{d}UTU-MU ik-kal 3{ta} MU.AN.NA-MEŠ | |
| 14' | i-na MU 4 ITI-MEŠ {iti}GU₄ {iti}NE {iti}DU₆ u₃ {iti}APIN | |
| 15' | [x x dul]-lu ša₂ ti-ib-ni ša₂ ANŠE-MEŠ u₃ ma-aṣ-ṣar-tu₄ | |
| 16' | [ša₂ x x x x] {m}{d}UTU-MU a-na UGU {m}re-[mut-{d}AG ...] |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
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