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Rental 031 (P531052)
Administrative, Neo-Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Rental 031 |
|---|---|
| ID | P531052 |
| Museum no. | BM 054956 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| 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 | KU₃.BABBAR i-di E₂-⸢MEŠ⸣ [NIG₂.GA {d}UTU] | The silver of the rent of the house-builders is the gift of Šamaš. |
| 2 | ša₂ {⸢iti⸣}APIN TA [...] | of Arahsamnu |
| 3 | {m}{d}NA₃-I LUGAL ⸢TIN⸣.[TIR{ki} ...] | Nabonidus, king of Babylon |
| 4 | 15 GIN₂ {m}{d}⸢EN⸣-[x ...] | 15 shekels: E-bel-[... ...]; |
| 5 | 2 1/2 GIN₂ {m}⸢x⸣-[...] | 2 1/2 shekels: E22-[...]; |
| 6 | 2 1/2 GIN₂ {m}[...] | 2 1/2 shekels: ; |
| 7 | [x GIN₂] {m}[...] | [x shekel(s): PN]; |
| r | ||
| 1´ | [... ... ...] ⸢GIN₂⸣ [...] | ... ešumu-plant |
| 2´ | ⸢PAP⸣.PAP 2 ma-na 9 GIN₂⸣ [KU₃.BABBAR ...] | a total of 2 minas 9 shekels of silver |
| 3´ | {iti}KIN UD 2-[KAM MU x-KAM {m}{d}NA₃-I] | 2nd day of Ululu, [year ... of] Nabonidus |
| 4´ | LUGAL ⸢TIN⸣.[TIR{ki} ...] | king of Babylon |
| 5´ | e-lat E₂-MEŠ ša₂ {⸢lu₂⸣}[...] | Apart from the houses of the elû priest |
| 6´ | i-di ⸢E₂⸣-[MEŠ ...] | the rent of the temples |
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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