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Camb. 213 (P531001)
Purchase and sale contracts, Achaemenid, Babylon · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | Camb. 213 |
|---|---|
| ID | P531001 |
| Museum no. | BM 031842 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE |
| Genre | Purchase and sale contracts |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
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)
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 | E₂ ša₂ {m}{d}U.GUR-KAR A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}BE-[x x] | The house of Nergal-eṭir, son of Illil- |
| 2 | A {m}su-ha-a-a E₂ maš-ka-nu ša₂ {m}KI-{d}AMAR.UTU-TIN | son of Suhāya, owner of the house being sold. |
| 3 | A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d}NA₃-ŠEŠ-MEŠ-MU A {m}e-gi-bi | son of Nabu-ahhe-iddin, descendant of Egibi |
| 4 | a-na u₄-mu 3 SILA₃ NINDA.HI.A a-na i-di E₂ | 3 litres of bread for the rent of the house. |
| 5 | [a-na] {d}EN-AD-URU₃ {lu₂}PA.KAB.DU | to Bel-abu-uṣur the šangû-priest |
| r | ||
| 1’ | [x x] ⸢x x⸣ {m}gi-mil-lu A-⸢šu₂⸣ | Gimillu, his son |
| 2’ | ša₂ {m}{d}NA₃-{mu}SIG₅ A {lu₂}ŠU.HA | From Nabu-mudammeq, descendant of Baʾeru. |
| 3’ | {m}{⸢d}EN-DA⸣ {lu₂}ŠID A-šu₂ ša₂ {m}MU-{d}NA₃ | E22di-Bel-le’e, the reed worker, son of Šumma-Nabu |
| 4’ | A {m}e-gi-bi TIN.TIR{ki} | from the Egibi family. Babylon. |
| 5’ | {iti}ZIZ₂ UD 15-KAM MU 3-KAM | 15th day of Šabaṭu, 3rd year of |
| 6’ | {m}kam-bu-zi-ia₂ LUGAL E{ki} | Cambyses, king of Babylon. |
| 7’ | LUGAL KUR.KUR | king of all lands. |
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)
- Linguistically Annotated Achemenet Babylonian Texts (Univ. Helsinki) · CC BY 4.0 · Alstola, T., Sahala, A., Valk, J., Ong, M. (2025). Linguistically Annotated Achemenet Babylonian Texts v1.1.0. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.17651786
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