IM – (X000015)
School, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | IM – |
|---|---|
| ID | X000015 |
| Museum no. | IM – |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | School |
| Find spot | Nippur |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saas2 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse Column i [0:2] o i 1'o i 1'–o i 2'2' | [(Its) witn]esses, [its month], its year. |
| Obverse Column i [2:3] o i 3'3'–o i 3'3' | [Tot.] gur of barley, |
| Obverse Column i [3:4] o i 4'4'–o i 4'4' | without [interest], |
| Obverse Column i [4:7] o i 5'5'–o i 7'7' | PN₂ received from PN₁; |
| Obverse Column i [7:9] o i 8'8'–o i 9'9' | to be [returned] at [the delivery of the har]vest. |
| Obverse Column i [9:11] o i 10'10'–o i 11'11' | If at [the delivery of the harvest he has not returned it ...] |
| Obverse Column ii [0:2] o ii 1'o ii 1'–o ii 2'2' | ... he will add an interest rate [of 100 sila of barley] per 1 gur. |
| Obverse Column ii [2:4] o ii 3'3'–o ii 4'4' | (Its) witnesses, its month, its year. |
| Obverse Column ii [4:5] o ii 5'5'–o ii 5'5' | 12 gur of barley |
| Obverse Column ii [5:8] o ii 6'6'–o ii 8'8' | Ur-Dukuga received from Ilum-ereš; |
| Obverse Column ii [8:10] o ii 9'9'–o ii 10'10' | to be returned at its due-time. |
| Obverse Column ii [10:13] o ii 11'11'–o ii 13'13' | If at its due-time he has not returned it, |
| Obverse Column ii [13:16] o ii 14'14'– | at [the delivery] of the harvest ... |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o i | ||
| 1' | [lu₂-ki]-⸢inim⸣-ma | |
| 2' | [itud-bi] ⸢mu⸣-bi-im | |
| 3' | [n] še gur | |
| 4' | [maš₂] nu-ub-tuku | |
| 5' | [ki ...]-kur-zu-ta | |
| 6' | [...]-da-sa₂-ke₄ | |
| 7' | [šu ba]-⸢an⸣-ti | |
| 8' | [mu-DU ud] ⸢buru₁₄⸣-ka | |
| 9' | [gur-ru]-dam | |
| 10' | [tukum]-bi | |
| 11' | [mu-DU ud buru₁₄]-ka | |
| o ii | ||
| 1' | maš₂ 1(aš) gur 1(barig) 4(ban₂) še-ta-am₃] | |
| 2' | bi₂-ib-tah-e | |
| 3' | lu₂-ki-inim-ma | |
| 4' | itud-bi mu-bi-im | |
| 5' | 1(u) 2(aš) še gur | |
| 6' | ki (AN.APIN-)ta | |
| 7' | ur-du₆-ku₃-ga-ke₄ | |
| 8' | šu ba-an-ti | |
| 9' | ki uludin-bi-še₃ | |
| 10' | gur-ru-dam | |
| 11' | tukum-bi | |
| 12' | ki uludin-bi-še₃ | |
| 13' | ⸢la⸣-ba-an-gur | |
| 14' | [mu-DU] ud buru₁₄-ka | |
Sources & licences
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