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Rental 020 (P531089)
Administrative, Neo-Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Rental 020 |
|---|---|
| ID | P531089 |
| Museum no. | BM 079054 |
| 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 ša₂] | The silver is the rent of the houses and the property of Šamaš. |
| 2 | TA {iti}KIN MU 3-⸢KAM⸣ {[d}U.GUR-LUGAL-URU₃ LUGAL E{ki} a-di] | from the month Ululu, 3rd year of Nergal-šar-uṣur, king of Babylon, until |
| 3 | {iti}NE MU.SAG.⸢NAM.LUGAL⸣.[LA] MU.SAG.⸢NAM.LUGAL⸣.[LA] MU.SAG.⸢NAM.LUGAL⸣.[LA] | Month Abu, eponym year of Nabû-šarru-uṣur. |
| 4 | {m}{d}⸢NA₃-I⸣ LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} ⸢a⸣-[na] | Ea-na’id, king of Babylon, |
| 5 | E₂.⸢BABBAR⸣.RA id-din-nu {iti}DU₆ | they gave. Tishri (VII) |
| 6 | UD 10+[x]-⸢KAM⸣ MU.SAG.NAM.LUGAL.LA MU.SAG.NAM.LUGAL.LA MU.SAG.NAM.LUGAL.LA {m}{d}NA₃-[I] LUGAL E{ki} | On the 10+[x]th day: “Greatest of the King’s Year, Greatest [of the King]! Nabonidus, king of Babylon. |
| 7 | KU₃.BABBAR ri-hi KU₃.BABBAR ša₂ SAG MU.AN.NA | Silver, interest-bearing, silver of the first year |
| 8 | 2 GIN₂ {m}{d}IM-ia-a-bi | 2 shekels: Adad-iābi; |
| 9 | 3 GIN₂ {m}{d}NA₃-NUMUN-MU A {m}IR₃-{d}na-na-a | 3 shekels: Nabu-zer-iddin, son of Arad-Nanaya; |
| 10 | 1/2 GIN₂ 1 1/2 GIN₂ {m}{⸢d}EN⸣-GI.NA | 1/2 shekel (and) 1 1/2 (shekels): E22d-Bel-ukin; |
| 11 | 1 GIN₂ IGI.DU [...] | 1 shekel: IGI.DU |
| 12 | [...] x | |
| 13 | 2 GIN₂ {m}{d}NA₃-⸢MU⸣ [x x x] ⸢x⸣-MU-⸢URU₃⸣ | 2 shekels: Nabu-emû-šumu-iqbi; |
| r | ||
| 14 | 3 ri-bat 4 GIN₂ {m}{d}AMAR.UTU-MU-DU₃ | 3 rībat 4 shekels: Marduk-šuma-ibni; |
| 15 | 3 GIN₂ {m}{d}IM-ra-pa-ʾ | 3 shekels: Adad-rapal; |
| 16 | 2 GIN₂ {m}{d}IM-⸢i⸣-ṭi₃-ri | 2 shekels: Adad-eṭiri; |
| 17 | 2 GIN₂ {f}ha-ag-gi-ia | 2 shekels: Haggiya; |
| 18 | 1 ⸢GIN₂⸣ {m}IR₃-{d}NA₃ {lu₂}ŠU.HA | 1 shekel: Ištar-Nabu, the brewer; |
| 19 | PAB 1/3 4 GIN₂ ina lib₃-bi | Total: 24 shekels from it. |
| 20 | 3 ri-bat a-na 3 SILA₃ šam-ni | 3 reeds for 3 qû of barley, |
| 21 | u₃ 1 BAN₂ 3 SILA₃ [a]-na ⸢qe⸣-[me x]-⸢x⸣-ad-da-a-a | and 1 seah 3 qû for the qēmu-house of ...-addāia. |
| 22 | 2 ⸢PI⸣ {lu₂}qi₂-i-⸢pi⸣ | 2 ēpî-vessels, the “officials of the qìpi-weapon’; |
Sources & licences
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- 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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