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Rental 003 (P531040)
Legal, Neo-Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Rental 003 |
|---|---|
| ID | P531040 |
| Museum no. | BM 073069 |
| 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 | [ša₂] E₂ ša₂ ina ŠU.II {m}ba-lat-su {lu₂}qi₂-i-pi [ša₂ E₂.BABBAR].⸢RA⸣ | (Property) of the house which is in the possession of Balassu, the guarantor of the Ebabbar temple |
| 2 | [u₃ {lu₂]}se-⸢pir⸣-ri ša₂ ID₂-LUGAL a-na NIG₂.GA {d}UTU ab-ka | and the pirērī priest of the royal river for the property of Šamaš I appointed. |
| 3 | a-na 5/6 MA.[NA KU₃].BABBAR a-na {m}{d}UTU-MU-SI.[SA₂] | for 5/6 minas of silver to Šamaš-shumu-lišir |
| 4 | ⸢A⸣-[šu₂ ša₂ {m}{d]}⸢UTU⸣-A-MU SUM{in} [TA {iti}KIN] | he gave. From the month of Elulu |
| 5 | a-di qi₂-it ša₂ {⸢iti⸣}NE [...] | until the end of month V |
| r | ||
| 1' | {⸢m}{d⸣}x-[x ...] | 'Ešum- |
| 2' | {lu₂}UMBISAG {m}{d}⸢UTU-NUMUN⸣-[DU₃ A-šu₂ ša₂] | Scribe: Šamaš-zer-ibni, son of |
| 3' | {m}ta-qiš URU-ša₂-{d}UTU | Taqīš, of the city of Šamaše |
| 4' | GU₂ {id₂}UD.KIB.NUN{ki} {iti}ŠU | the bank of the Euphrates, in the month of Dūr |
| 5' | UD 27-KAM MU 14-KAM | 27th day, 14th year. |
| 6' | {d}NA₃-I LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} | Nabonidus, king of Babylon. |
Sources & licences
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