BIN 08, 024

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BIN 08, 027

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P212608 · ~2400 BCE

BIN 08, 029

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P212609 · ~2400 BCE

BIN 08, 030

“25 aktum-garments 20 minus 3 NI-garments [= 17] 8 nig2-bar-ba [items] 3 nig2-la2 gaba [chest-pieces] New table…”

P212615 · ~2400 BCE

BIN 08, 038

“15 gur of barley — purchase price for 1 house of 1 sar — it is. Nin-pada, wife of Lugal-ša, who drew [it] from…”

Transliteration

2(u) 1/2(disz) sag 2(u) 2(disz)
5(gesz2) 3(u) us2 5(gesz2) 3(u)
GAN2-bi 4(bur3@c) la2 2(iku@c)
1(iku@c) GAN2-bi 1(asz@c) 1(barig@c) sze gur#-ta
sze-bi 1(gesz2@c) 2(u@c) 7(asz@c) 2(barig@c) gur
amar-ezem x

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — BIN 08, 024. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (P212605) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P212605..

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