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BM 026518 (P559012)

Legal, Neo-Babylonian, Borsippa · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE

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Designation	BM 026518
ID	P559012
Museum no.	BM 026518
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
Genre	Legal
Find spot	Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud)
Coordinates	32.3924, 44.3434

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)
obverse 1	prebend of the shepherd of Ezida, temple of Nabû, of Nabû-mukn-apli
obverse 8	The silver of the prebend of Nabû-mukn-apli
reverse 14	Babu-iddin, son of the oxherd
reverse 12	son of Ilu-ibni
reverse 11	Witnesses: Nabû-aared
obverse 10	They shall be seized, and they shall be seized.
obverse 2	son of uzubu, descendant of Sippar
reverse 18	Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
reverse 15	and the scribe Nergal-uezib
obverse 9	Written and checked in the prebend.
obverse 7	before Rmt-Gula he entrusted.
obverse 3	which by the hands of Nabû-dammiq/Nabû-ere
obverse 5	The price of the prebend is 1 mina 50 1 shekels.
reverse 13	Marduk-zeru-ibni, son of u-abu
obverse 4	son of the oxen-drivers:
obverse 6	Nabû-mukn-apli sealed and
reverse 17	on the 21st day;
reverse 16	descendant of ulmu-eir.

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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