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Civil Notebook BM 047553 (P526828)
Lexical, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Civil Notebook BM 047553 |
|---|---|
| ID | P526828 |
| Museum no. | BM 047553 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian; Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Lexical |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [...] [...]-u₂ | ...-u |
| 2' | [...] [ra]-⸢a⸣-ṭu | ... ra’eṭu |
| 3' | [...] [qal]-qal-la | ... the ground |
| 4' | [...] ma-aq-lu-u₂ | ... are destroyed. |
| 5' | [...] buru₃ kiš-kat₂-tu-u | ... harvest of the kiškattu-festival |
| 6' | [...]-⸢ba⸣-a {<MIN(tākaltu)>} qa-an ṭup-pu | ...-eba’ea, ditto, hand of the tablet |
| 7' | {kuš}[im]-⸢kid₂⸣ ši-it-qu | The sandal was taken |
| 8' | {kuš}[...] LU sa-as-su | ... a man's sandal |
| 9' | {kuš}ŋiri₃-{kur}kur₂ dub-dub-bu | “Biri-Kurkur, the scribal art, |
| 10' | {kuš}bar kun zib-ba-nu | leather pouch with tail of a ziggurat |
| 11' | {kuš}ub₃ up-pu | a leather bag |
| 12' | {kuš}⸢a₂⸣-ŋa₂ ṭa-bi-hu | a leather bag of tbābihu-flour |
| 13' | {kuš}⸢a₂⸣ ak-a šip-ki | I have made a leather pouch for you |
| 14' | [...]-ba bi-iʾ-šu | Its ... is its ... |
| 15' | [...]-ba la {<MIN(bi-iʾ-šu)>} | Its ... did not have |
| r | ||
| 1 | (...) (...) | |
| 2 | (...) tah-la-pa-tum | [(...) t]aḫlapatum |
| 3 | (...) ba-an-bir-ri | he crossed over. |
| 4 | (...) (...) | |
| 5 | (...) {<MIN(mašak)>} tim-bu-ut-ti | “[(...)] the timbūttu-plant |
| 6 | (...) {<MIN(mašak)>} <a>-li-iʾ | (Sum) ... he sat down(?) (Akk) I sit down |
| 7 | kuš nir-dub {<MIN(mašak)>} dub-dub-bu | sandals, sashes, |
| 8 | kuš {ugu}u-gu₅-ba {<MIN(mašak)>} pa-gu-u₂ | a leather bag for a turban, a pagû-garment |
| 9 | kuš {munus}{ugu}u-gu₅-ba {<MIN(mašak)>} pa-gi-tum | leather (for) a female pigeon |
| 10 | {kuš}bar pa-a-ri | leather pouches |
| 11a | da-bi-⸢hu⸣ [kug-sig₁₇] | Abī-eḫû with gold |
| 11b | niŋ₂-ŋeštug kug-sig₁₇ | gold scepter |
| 12a | niŋ₂-PA [kug-sig₁₇] | a gold ring |
| 12b | niŋ₂ za-na kug-sig₁₇ | with a gold ring on her neck |
| 13a | [niŋ₂]-⸢KA⸣ [kug]-sig₁₇ | a gold ring |
| 13b | niŋ₂-na kug-sig₁₇ | whose aura is gold |
| 14a | [šu-uš-ŋar]-ra kug-sig₁₇ | gold arrowhead |
| 14b | šu-⸢eš⸣-la₂ kug-sig₁₇ | a gold ring |
| 15a | [...] kug-sig₁₇ | ... gold |
| 15b | alan kug-sig₁₇ | a gold statue |
| 16a | {[d}lamma kug]-sig₁₇ | a gold protective deity |
| 16b | ⸢ki⸣-gal kug-sig₁₇ | gold E-gal |
| 17a | [u₄-sakar kug]-sig₁₇ | gold equinox |
| 17b | [aš]-me kug-sig₁₇ | gold ring |
| 18a | [...] [...] | |
| 18b | ⸢gurun⸣ kug-sig₁₇ in-bi | He brought the gold granary. |
| 19 | [...] [maš]-ka-šum | ... maškum plant |
| 20 | [...] [a-mur]-din-nu | ... Amurdinnu |
| 21 | [...] [...]-du | ...-du |
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
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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