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Care of the Elderly 078-079 (P524960)

Legal, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	Care of the Elderly 078-079
ID	P524960
Museum no.	BM 097544
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Legal
Find spot	Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)
Coordinates	33.0605, 44.2552

Transliteration (ATF)

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Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
obverse
1	{disz}szu-mi-er-s,e-tim	Šumi-erṣetim
2	{disz}i-bi-ia-tum	Ibbiyatum
3	e-me-su2-u2	he swore.
4	a-di ba-al-t,a3-at	as long as he lives
5	i-pi2-ir-szi	he shall replace.
6	li-ib-ba-sza u2-<sza>-am-s,i-i-ma#	her heart trembled
7	_iti 1(disz)-kam 2(barig) sze_	for 1 month, 2 barig of barley
8	i-na-di-isz-szi	he will give her.
9	s,u2-ba-ta-su2 u2-la-ab-ba-asz	his garment he shall cover.
reverse
1	_igi_ {d}suen-ma-gir	before Sîn-magir
2	_igi_ {d}utu-na-s,ir	before Šamaš-nāṣir
3	_igi_ e-ta-am-szi-a	before Ētamšiya
4	_igi_ a-da-ia-tum	before Adayatum
5	_igi_ {d}utu-ha-zi-ir	before Šamaš-hazir
6	_iti bara2-za3-gar u4 1(disz)-kam_	The month of Nisannu, the day 1
7	_mu gu-za nesag-ga2_	the year: “The throne of the first-fruit offerings.

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