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Publication
Primary publication: PBS 08/2, 137
Author: Chiera, Edward
Publication date: 1922
Secondary publication(s): Roth Mesop. Law, p. 106
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CDLI no.: P261082
UCLA Library ARK 21198/zz001tq63h
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Source of original electronic files
Catalogue: 20050425 fitzgerald_upenn
Transliteration: Guidi, Carlo
Translation: Guidi, Carlo
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Collection Information
Owner: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum no.: CBS 04886
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Acquisition history: Nippur

Text Content:
Genre: Legal
Sub-genre: Manumission of a female slave
Sub-genre remarks: Manumission document; 12 lines, 2 kinds of seal impressions on all the sides. *A piece of paper in the drawer says 4886 to 4900 ? 6/26/67""
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Language: Sumerian
Physical Information
Object type: tablet & envelope
Material: clay
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Measurements (mm): ? x ? x ?
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Condition description: Case, 1 side inscribed
Join information: P261082 lead, single entry
Seal no.: Sx
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Provenience:
Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Chronology:
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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Date of Origin: Samsu-iluna.23.09.06
Dates referenced: Samsu-iluna.23.09.06
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Tablet & envelope

envelope

obverse
1. dub# nam-sikil-[la-ni-sze3]
#tr.en: Document for her manumission.
2. {disz}esz18-dar-u2-ta#-ar# sag-geme2#
#tr.en: Ištar-utar, a female slave,
3. {disz}nu-t,u3-up-tum dumu s,i-li2-{d}[utu]
#tr.en: Nu(ṭ)ṭuptum, daughter of Ṣi(l)li-šamaš,
4. ama-ar-gi4-ni in-gar
#tr.en: has set free (and)
5. sag-ki-ni in-dadag
#tr.en: her forehead has cleansed;
6. dug nam-geme2-ni-sze3 in-gaz
#tr.en: she has freed her from slavery (lit. she has broken the jar of her slavery).
7. dub nam-sikil-la-ni-sze3
#tr.en: A manumission sealed document
8. in-na-an-tak4
#tr.en: she has made out.
$ blank space
9. iti gan#-gan-e3 u4 6(disz)-kam
#tr.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
#tr.en: (of) the year (in which) Samsu-iluna the king, by the fierce power which Enlil gave him (destroyed Shahna, ..., Zarhanum, Putra, Šuša ---).

reverse
$ blank

seal 1
1. nu-t,u3-up-tum
#tr.en: Nu(á¹­)á¹­uptum,
2. lukur {d}nin-urta
#tr.en: nadītu of Ninurta
3. dumu s,i-li2-{d}utu
#tr.en: daughter of á¹¢i(l)li-Å¡amaÅ