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Hand drawing below by Ernst F. Weidner (1952)


ITIBIKILAMŠEIMGURPAKALUMGURDIŠZIZ2UKALAGABGUR


Transliteration:

ITI BI KI.LAM še-im 1 GUR 2(b) ZU2.LUM 1 GUR 1(p) 4(b) ka-si 1 GUR x [...]

Translation - by P.V. Neugebauer and E. F. Weidner (1915) edited by Hermann Hunger (1988)

That month, the equivalent (of 1 shekel of silver was): barley, 1 kurru 2 sūtu; dates, 1 kurru 1 pānu 4 sūtu; mustard, 1 kurru ... [...]

Note

SymbolSyllablesMeanings
ITI warḫu: month
BI BI
GAGAR
KI
Ground
Place, with
LAM LAM
ŠE Addaru: Adar, the twelfth month
barley
IM IM

DIL
DILI
RUM
ina
one

single
GUR GUR
PA PA
KA KA
LUM LUM

DIL
DILI
RUM
ina
one

single
GUR GUR
DIŠ Constantly, always, one, sixty,
if
ZIZ2 Šabāṭu: Shebat, eleventh month
U
bur3
šu4
ge14
Earth, finger, ten, totality
Unit
Cover
Blow
and
KA KA
LAGAB
RI3
GUR4
niĝin2
ellag
KUR4
block; excess

thick
encircle, total
bibbu: Mercury
KUR4 = ba'lu which means either ba'ālu: to be abnormally large, to become bright or shine brightly;
or ba'ūlu: great, important; - The Assyrian Dictionary, Volume 2, B (1965) pg 1, 184

DIL
DILI
RUM
ina
one

single
GUR GUR

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