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BM 032541 (P562050)
Purchase and sale contracts, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 032541 |
|---|---|
| ID | P562050 |
| Museum no. | BM 032541 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Purchase and sale contracts |
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 2 | and he has died, as he deems best |
| reverse 3 | together they smashed. |
| obverse 6' | which Gn-zri, son of Buu, gave |
| obverse 2' | son of Eiru |
| reverse 6 | Ardu-Nabû, son of Bel-eir, descendant of |
| obverse 4' | from the price of his field Nadinu, son of Nabu-e- |
| reverse 7 | -Marduk, son of Nabu- |
| reverse 4 | At the sealing of that tablet |
| reverse 1 | The arable land, as much as he has returned |
| obverse 3' | he weighed out 1 shekel of ghee and 12 minas of silver |
| reverse 5 | Witness: Marduk-umu-uur, son of Aplaya, descendant of |
| obverse 5' | son of Eiru, to Nabû-umu-iddina, his son. |
| obverse 7' | As long as the arable land is irrigated, there will be famine in the plain. |
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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