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Nbn. 289 (P552360)
Purchase and sale contracts, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nbn. 289 |
|---|---|
| ID | P552360 |
| Museum no. | BM 030626 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Purchase and sale contracts |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| reverse 3 | Kalbâ, son of um-ukin |
| obverse 3 | For 2 kurru of barley, to Iddin-Marduk-uballi |
| obverse 6 | Iqia received from Iddin-Marduk-uballi. |
| reverse 2 | son of Marduk-eriba, descendant of Sin-ndin-umi |
| reverse 4 | and the scribe, Iqia, son of Bunanu |
| obverse 5 | gave, barley, |
| reverse 5 | Babylon, Ayyaru (II), |
| reverse 6 | 27th day, 8th year of Nabû-na'id. |
| obverse 2 | son of Bunanu, descendant of Rab-bani |
| obverse 7 | has been written. |
| reverse 7 | the king of Babylon |
| obverse 4 | son of Nabû-ahhe-iddin, descendant of Egibi |
| reverse 1 | Witnesses: Nabû-balassu-iqbi, |
| obverse 1 | a bed of the rimki house of Iqia. |
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
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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