PBS 08/2, 137 (P261082)

Legal tablet & envelope excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Transliteration

envelope
obverse
1. dub# nam-sikil-[la-ni-sze3]
 en: Document for her manumission.
2. {disz}esz18-dar-u2-ta#-ar# sag-geme2#
 en: Ištar-utar, a female slave,
3. {disz}nu-t,u3-up-tum dumu s,i-li2-{d}[utu]
 en: Nu(ṭ)ṭuptum, daughter of Ṣi(l)li-šamaš,
4. ama-ar-gi4-ni in-gar
 en: has set free (and)
5. sag-ki-ni in-dadag
 en: her forehead has cleansed;
6. dug nam-geme2-ni-sze3 in-gaz
 en: she has freed her from slavery (lit. she has broken the jar of her slavery).
7. dub nam-sikil-la-ni-sze3
 en: A manumission sealed document
8. in-na-an-tak4
 en: she has made out.
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9. iti gan#-gan-e3 u4 6(disz)-kam
 en: The month of Kislīmum, the day 6
10. mu sa-am-su-i-lu-na lugal-e usu ir9-ra {d}en-lil2-le mu-un-na-an-szum2-ma-ta
 en: (of) the year (in which) Samsu-iluna the king, by the fierce power which Enlil gave him (destroyed Shahna, ..., Zarhanum, Putra, Šuša ---).
reverse
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seal 1
1. nu-t,u3-up-tum
 en: Nu(ṭ)ṭuptum,
2. lukur {d}nin-urta
 en: nadītu of Ninurta
3. dumu s,i-li2-{d}utu
 en: daughter of Ṣi(l)li-šamaš