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Rental 137 (P531014)
Legal, Neo-Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Rental 137 |
|---|---|
| ID | P531014 |
| Museum no. | BM 068440 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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' | x [... ...] | |
| 2' | a-⸢na⸣ i-di E₂ ⸢a-na⸣ [...] | “If he goes out, the rent of the house will increase |
| 3' | ša₂ ina 1 GIN₂ bit-qa nu-uh-hu-⸢tu⸣ [a-na {m}bul-lu-ṭu] | of one-eighth alloy to Bullutu |
| 4' | DUMU ša₂ {m}{d}NA₃-MU-GAR{un} DUMU {m}MU-[...] | son of Nabû-šuma-iṣbi, son of ... |
| 5' | u₂-ri i-ša₂-an-nu bat-qa ša₂ [a-sur-ru-u₂ i-ṣab-bat] | He will renew the roof, he will carry out the repairs to the wall footing |
| 6' | a-hi KU₃.BABBAR ina re-eš MU.AN.NA u [a-hi KU₃.BABBAR] | One-half of the silver at the beginning of the year and one-half (of the silver) |
| 7' | ina mi-šil MU.AN.NA ina-ad-din i-[...] | He shall pay in the middle of the year. |
| b.e. | ||
| 8' | 3 GIN₂ KU₃.BABBAR ku-um [...] | 3 shekels of silver instead of |
| r | ||
| 9' | ul-tu UD 1-KAM ša₂ {iti}BARA₂ [(...)] | From the 1st day of Nisannu |
| 10' | E₂ ina IGI-šu₂ KU₃.BABBAR ša₂ mi-šil MU.AN.⸢NA⸣ [(...)] | The house is at his disposal. The silver is of half of the year |
| 11' | ina ŠU.II {m}⸢bul⸣-[lu]-⸢ṭu⸣ e-ṭi-ir 1{⸢en⸣}[TA.AM₃] | From Ebullu-elu-tû, they have each taken (a copy of the document). |
| 12' | ša₂-ṭa-ri il-qu-u₂ {lu₂}mu-kin-nu [...] | Witnesses: |
| 13' | DUMU ša₂ {m}DUB-NUMUN A {m}pap-pa-a-a {m}{d}⸢EN⸣-[...] | son of Šapik-zeri, descendant of Pappāya; |
| 14' | [...]-⸢NA₃ A {m}na⸣-[...] | ...-eša, son of Nae- |
Sources & licences
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