PBS 08/2, 157 (P125408)

Legal tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Transliteration

tablet
obverse
1. 1(disz) sag-[nita?]
 en: One female slave,
2. a-a-zi-mu mu-ni-im
 en: Aya-zimu is her name,
3. nig2-sa10-ma-ni 1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar
 en: whose price is 10 shekels of silver,
4. ur-nigar{gar} dumu ur-{d}utu-ra
 en: from Urniĝar, son of Ur-šamaš,
5. ur-{d}kal-kal dumu ur-{d}en-lil2-la2
 en: Ur-kalkal, son of Ur-enlila,
6. in-szi-sa10
 en: has bought.
7. lu2 lu2 nu-gi4-gi4-de3
 en: (That) man against man shall not return (on the decision)
8. mu lugal-bi i3-pa3-esz2
 en: by the name of the king they have sworn.
9. igi lugal-a2-zi-da dumu ba-li2-li2-sze3
 en: In the presence of Lugal-azida, son of Balili;
10. igi ARAD2-dam dumu a-ba-{d}en-lil2-gin7-sze3
 en: in the presence of Waraddam, son of Aba-enlilgin;
reverse
1. igi lugal-ku3-zu sukkal esz3-sze3
 en: in the presence of Lugal-kuzu, secretary of the shrine;
2. igi a-da-lal3 kisal-luh-sze3
 en: in the presence of Adalal, courtyard sweeper;
3. igi zu-la ar3-ar3-sze3
 en: in the presence of Zula, miller;
4. lu2-inim-ma-bi-me
 en: they are its witnesses.
5. iti NE-NE-gar u4 1(u) 2(disz) ba-zal
 en: The month of Abum, the day 12 has passed,
6. mu us2-sa bad3-gal nibru{ki} ba-du3
 en: (of) the year after (the year in which) the big (city) wall of Nippur was built.
seal 1
1. ur-nigar{gar}
 en: Urniĝar
2. dumu ur-{d}utu
 en: son of Ur-šamaš
seal 2
1. a-a-zi-mu
 en: Aya-zimu
2. ARAD2 geme2!-{d}suen
 en: slave of Geme-sîn