Position in chronology
BIN 08, 202
About this tablet
This is a short record of dates handed out to named people. It was written by a scribe in the Old Akkadian (Sargonic) period, about 2300–2150 BCE, and its findspot in Mesopotamia is unknown. The first line gives a total of dates. The lines below list how much each person received: three people each got the same portion, and one of them is a metalworker called Enne. Records like this show that dates were a basic food, and that an administration shared them out in fixed amounts to its dependants and craftsmen.
Plain-language summary by the engine — meant as a doorway into the literal translation below.
Written in modern English
Total: 10 gur and 2 barig of dates. Here is how it was divided. Lu-dingira received 2 gur and 2 barig. Gununu received 2 gur and 2 barig. Enne the silversmith also received 2 gur and 2 barig.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — our engine
Our engine1. 10 gur 2 barig of dates (gur-measure); 2. of which (as follows): 3. 2 gur 2 barig: Lu-dingira; 4. 2 gur 2 barig: Gununu; 5. 2 gur 2 barig (gur-measure): Enne, the silversmith.
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Transliteration
1(u@c) 2(barig@c) zu2-lum gur sza3-bi 2(asz@c) 2(barig@c) lu2-dingir-ra# 2(asz@c) 2(barig@c) gu-nu-nu 2(asz@c) 2(barig@c) gur en-ne2 ku3-dim2
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — BIN 08, 202. 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 (P212746) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from engine:claude-opus-5-5 (2026-09-20/v8-evolved).
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