OIP 092, 0051

About this tablet

An administrative receipt from the Persepolis Fortification Archive, written in Elamite by a clerk of the Persian imperial economy under Darius I. It records the movement of 144 marriš (roughly 1,400 liters) of wine: one official hauled it from a supply point, another took delivery and put it into storage. The '22nd year' is Darius's regnal year 22, about 500 BCE. Thousands of such slips document the rations, transport, and warehousing that kept the heartland of the Achaemenid Empire running.

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Written in modern English

Warehouse paperwork from the Persian Empire: 144 jars' worth of wine — about 1,400 liters — was drawn from the supplier Maturban. Uzikraš transported the shipment, and Miššabadda signed for it on arrival, putting it into storage at the same place. Filed in year 22 of the king's reign, around 500 BCE.

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144 marriš of wine — supplied from Maturban. Uzikraš carried (it off); Miššabadda received (it). At Huddu-(ditto) he set (it) down as stores. 22nd year.

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Transliteration

_1(disz) me_ 4(u@v) 4(disz@v) mar-ri-isz _gesztin-mesz_-na ma-tur-ba-an-mar u2-zi2-ik-rasz2 ku-ut-ka4
mi-isz-sza2-ba-ad-da du-sza2 hu-ud-du#-_ki#-min#_-ma mi-isz-pa-na ku!-iz-za
be-ul 2(u) 2(disz)-um-me-man-na#

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Achaemenid (547-331 BC)) — OIP 092, 0051. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: OIM L— (PFAP, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA) — from Pārśa (mod. Persepolis) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P382737). source
Translation excerpted from engine:claude-fable-5 (2026-07-12/v7-evolved).

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