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BM 029059 (P559303)

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

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Designation	BM 029059
ID	P559303
Museum no.	BM 029059
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 3	of Nabû-umu-ukn/Ndin.
obverse 6	In Kislev (IX) on the road
reverse 12	son of the fisherman,
reverse 13	Babu-ah-iddina
reverse 10	son of ama-iddin, descendant of Huab
reverse 14	son of Nabu-na'id, descendant of Nabu-eme
obverse 2	(Property) of the ziggurat.
obverse 8	The silver is the price of his baked bricks.
reverse 16	20th day;
obverse 4	son of Ibnaya, against Ana-Nabû-taklak
obverse 7	who a stele he shall give.
obverse 5	the delegate of Nabû-ina-tei-eir
obverse 1	3300 baked bricks,
reverse 18	king of Babylon
reverse 15	Arameans, Ululu (Month VI),
reverse 9	Witnesses: Nabu-eir
reverse 17	Nabopolassar
reverse 11	Kalbâ, son of Nusku;

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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