CUSAS 40, 2025 (P516809)

Business / Contracts tablet excavated in Uncertain (mod. uncertain), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period

Cite

Museum Collection(s)

Museum Number

IM —

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

uncertain (mod. uncertain)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal > Business / Contracts (loan)

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

Text

tablet
obverse
1. 2(disz) 1/3(disz) gin2 1(u) 2(disz) sze ku3-babbar
2. e-esz-de2-a
3. ki i3-li2-i-din-nam
4. i im-gur-ia
5. szu ba-an-ti {d}suen-sze3
6. mu-kux(DU) u4 1(disz)-kam
7. ku3 i3-la2-e
8. igi ma-lam-a-a
reverse
1. igi szi-i-esz18-dar
2. igi i-ku-ta-ia
3. iti {gesz}apin-du8-a
4. mu us2-sa sa3-bi-um {d}en-ki {d}nanna ma-a-[...]

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Consult word list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Text content

Genre(s)	Legal > Business / Contracts (loan)
Language(s)	Sumerian

Chronology

Period	Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Dates Referenced	Sabium.00.08.00 (us2 year) ?
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P516809
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P516809

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience	uncertain (mod. uncertain)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)
Museum Number	IM —
Accession Number

References

primary: CUSAS 40, 2025

[Sigrist2019CUSAS40] Sigrist, Marcel, and Tohru Ozaki. 2019. Tablets from the Irisaĝrig Archive, Part One and Two. Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology (CUSAS) 40. University Park, Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns.

Interest-free loan of silver

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status	Action
2019-12-02 at 15:54:49	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Ozaki Tohru; Sigrist, Marcel		CDLI, CDLI	Approved
2019-09-27 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Ozaki Tohru		CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“CUSAS 40, 2025 Artifact Entry.” 2019. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 27, 2019. https://cdli.earth/P516809.

CUSAS 40, 2025 artifact entry (No. P516809). (2019, September 27). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P516809

CUSAS 40, 2025 artifact entry (2019) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P516809 (Accessed: November 3, 2026).

@misc{2019CUSAS,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-03]},
	year = {2019},
	month = {sep 27},
	title = {CUSAS 40, 2025 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P516809},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P516809},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2019/9/27/
PY  - 2019
ID  - P516809
LB  - CDLI:P516809
M1  - 2026/11/3/
TI  - CUSAS 40, 2025 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P516809
ER  -

Cite this Artifact

“CUSAS 40, 2025 Artifact Entry.” 2019. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 27, 2019. https://cdli.earth/P516809.

CUSAS 40, 2025 artifact entry (No. P516809). (2019, September 27). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P516809

CUSAS 40, 2025 artifact entry (2019) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P516809 (Accessed: November 3, 2026).

@misc{2019CUSAS,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-03]},
	year = {2019},
	month = {sep 27},
	title = {CUSAS 40, 2025 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P516809},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P516809},
}

TY  - ELEC
DA  - 2019/9/27/
PY  - 2019
ID  - P516809
LB  - CDLI:P516809
M1  - 2026/11/3/
TI  - CUSAS 40, 2025 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P516809
ER  -