BDHP 41 (P510417)

Legal tablet & envelope excavated in Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 082487 & BM 082488

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal

Language(s)

Akkadian

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tablet
obverse
1. _2(esze3) GAN2 a-sza3_ i-na bu-ra?{ki}
2. i-na szi-di-im ar-ki-im
3. i-ta _a-sza3_ be-el-szu-nu
4. u3 i-ta _a-sza3_ ri-isz-er3-ra
5. _ha-la_ {d}suen-mu-ba-li2-it,
6. u3 ip-qu2-sza
7. a-hu-um ma-la a-hi-im
8. _szu ba-an-[ti]_
9. _1(asz) 2(barig) gur sze_ a-na um-mi#-[szu-nu]
  restored from the envelope
10. i-na _mu 1(disz)-kam_ i-na-di-nu
  coll. G. van Driel
11. sza sze-am la i-na-di-nu
12. i-na _a-sza3_ u2-ul szu-hu-[uz]
  restored from the envelope
reverse
1. _igi_ e-ri-ba-am-{d}suen
2. _dumu_ ka-ak-ku
3. _igi_ {d}suen-re-me-ni
4. _dumu_ {d}iszkur-ba-ni
5. _igi_ na-ra-am-{d}suen
6. _dumu_ bur-nu-nu
7. _igi_ {d}suen-re-me-ni
8. _dumu_ en-ni-ia
9. _igi_ i-lu-KA-[(...)]
10. _igi_ i-tar-s,i-dingir
11. _dumu-mesz_ i-ku-pi2-[...]
12. _igi_ er3-ra-i-mi-ti
13. _dumu_ nu-nu-a-hu-um
left
column 1
1. a-hi-a-da
2. _dumu_ na-bi-i3-li2-szu
column 2
1. ib-ni-{d}[amar]-utu#
2. _dumu_ bur-{d}suen
envelope
obverse
  Stol, Care elderly (1998) p. 77 note 71

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Consult word list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet & envelope
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: BDHP, 41

    [Waterman1916BDHP] Waterman, Leroy. 1916. Business Documents of the Hammurapi Period from the British Museum. London: Luzac & Co.

  • history: Hammurabi's Gesetz 6, no. 1444

    [Koschaker1923HG6] Koschaker, Paul, and Arthur Ungnad. 1923. Hammurabi’s Gesetz. Band VI: Übersetzte Urkunden Mit Rechtserläuterungen. Leipzig: Eduard Pfeiffer.

  • history: Care of the Elderly p.59-117, p. 76-77

    [Stol1998elderly] Stol, Marten. 1998. “Care of the Elderly in Mesopotamia in the Old Babylonian Period.” In The Care of the Elderly in the Ancient Near East, edited by Marten Stol and Sven P. Vleeming, 59–117. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, Volume 14. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill.

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  • Museum No.: BM 082487 & BM 082488
  • Accession No.: 1891-05-09 Bu, 2509

Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2022-06-23 at 12:59:37 Jagersma, Bram Atf Jagersma, Bram CDLI approved View
2018-06-01 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Jagersma, Bram CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“BDHP 41 Artifact Entry.” 2018. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 1, 2018. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P510417.
BDHP 41 artifact entry (No. P510417). (2018, June 1). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.ucla.edu/P510417
BDHP 41 artifact entry (2018) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.ucla.edu/P510417 (Accessed: March 15, 2025).
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	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-03-15]},
	year = {2018},
	month = {jun 1},
	title = {BDHP 41 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P510417},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.ucla.edu/P510417},
}

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