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BM 082793 (P559756)

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

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Designation	BM 082793
ID	P559756
Museum no.	BM 082793
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 4	son of Rail, descendant of ama-ahu-eri
obverse 3	son of a scribe, is upon Kudurru.
reverse 12	a-Nabû-û/Nabû-iqia
obverse 6	as in the month of Nisannu he has not given
obverse 7	for 1 shekel of silver on him
reverse 15	and the scribe, Nabû-ndin-il, son of the scribe.
reverse 18	king of Babylon
reverse 17	Year 17 of Nabû-aplu-uur.
obverse 1	11 shekels of silver, capital;
reverse 13	descendant of Rab-a-il
obverse 8	The silver which in his order
reverse 11	son of Kidin-Sîn
reverse 14	Bel-ibni, son of Nabû-ibni, descendant of Nergal
obverse 9	he shall not pay.
obverse 2	of Nabû-muetiq-udde
reverse 10	Witnesses: Nabû-epi
obverse 5	he shall pay in the month of Nisannu.
reverse 16	Borsippa, Dar 21-ebtu

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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