Unread Atlas

Home › Tablets › P522430

RA 097, 76, 121 (BM 54118) (P522430)

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

Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets

DesignationRA 097, 76, 121 (BM 54118)
IDP522430
Museum no.BM 054118
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodAchaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
GenreLegal
Find spotKutha (mod. Tell Ibrahim)
Coordinates32.7605, 44.6112

English translation

By Jursa, M. · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55[... refin]ed [silver], the remainder of [the price of the house of Šul]lumaya, son of Mušezib [... ...] of Šullumaya, seller of the house, [re]ceived [from] Bel-uballiṭ, son of Nabu-šum-ukin, and he is paid –
Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77(This is) [the silver] which was gi[ven] to Ubar, son of Nabu-balassu-iqbi.
Reverse [0:1] r 8r 8–r 8r 8Witnesses: Kaṣir, son of Belšunu;
Reverse [1:2] r 99–r 99Nidintu, son of [...]-Nabu;
Reverse [2:3] r 1010–r 1010Bel-ittannu, [son of] Nergal-šum-iddin;
Reverse [3:5] r 1111–r 1212Bel-eṭir, [son of] Ninkilim-iddin;
Reverse [5:6] r 1313–r 1313[the scribe, Nergal-bullis]su, son of Kaṣir.
Reverse [6:8] r 1414–r 1515[Kutha], 4th day of intercalary Addaru, [10th year] of Artaxerxes, king of the lands.

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)
o
1[x x x KU₃.BABBAR qa-lu]-u₂ re-eh-tu₄
2[ŠAM₂ E₂ ša₂ {m}šul]-lu-ma-a A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}mu-še-zi-bi
3[x x x x] ⸢ša₂⸣ {m}šul-lu-ma-a na-din E₂
4[ina ŠU.II {m]}{d}EN-TIN{iṭ} DUMU ša₂ {m}{d}NA₃-MU-DU
5[ma]-⸢hi⸣-ir e-ṭe-er
6[KU₃.BABBAR] ša₂ a-na {m}u₂-bar ⸢DUMU ša₂⸣
7{⸢m⸣}{d}NA₃-TIN{su}E na-[din]
r
8{⸢lu₂⸣}mu-kin-nu {m}ka-ṣir ⸢DUMU⸣ ša₂
9{[m]}⸢EN⸣-šu₂-nu {m}ni-din-tu₄ DUMU ša₂
10{[m}x]-{d}NA₃ {m}{d}EN-it-tan-nu
11[DUMU ša₂ {m]}{⸢d⸣}U.GUR-MU-MU {m}{d}EN-SUR
12[DUMU ša₂ {m}{d]}NIN.KILIM-MU
13{[lu₂}UMBISAG {m}{d}U.GUR-TIN]{⸢su⸣} DUMU ša₂ {m}ka-ṣir
14[GU₂.DU₈.A{ki]} {iti}DIRI.ŠE UD 4-KAM
15[MU 10-KAM {m]}⸢ar⸣-tak-šat-su
16⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR.KUR

Sources & licences

Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.