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BM 029181 (P559347)

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

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Designation	BM 029181
ID	P559347
Museum no.	BM 029181
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
Genre	Administrative
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	from abau to the 3rd day of Simanu
reverse 17	17th year of Nebuchadnezzar.
obverse 6	son of Nabutu. Month Simanu, 8th day.
obverse 9	Month Duuzu (IV), 18th day.
reverse 15	he gave to the house of the property.
reverse 13	2 (times) 5 57 equids,
reverse 12	Total: 924 eirdu-measures.
reverse 18	the king of Babylon, the gatekeeper, opened.
bottom 10	498 received by Nabû-ahhe-bullissu.
reverse 14	Nabû-ahhe-uballi/Nabû-umu-ikun
bottom 11	son of Nabû-umu-ikun.
obverse 2	from Nabû-ahhe-bullissu/Nabû-umu-ikun.
reverse 16	until the 25th of Duuzu
obverse 4	94 (lines) of bitumen,
obverse 1	924 (gloss: new break)
obverse 5	Bel-uur, son of Bel-le’i;
obverse 7	650 (shekels) of...,
obverse 8	From Nabû-ahhe-uballi.

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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