Position in chronology
MAD 5, 084
About this tablet
A small receipt from the Old Akkadian period (c. 2350–2200 BCE), probably from the town at modern Umm al-Jir in Babylonia. It records that a woman — identified as the mother of a man named Iwir-mupi — took delivery of a modest package of valuables: a few shekels of silver, a sheep, and some good barley. Such notes are rare glimpses of women acting in everyday economic life, handling property on behalf of their families.
Plain-language summary by the engine — meant as a doorway into the literal translation below.
Written in modern English
Receipt: three and a half small shekels of silver, one sheep, and one measure of top-grade barley, in the matter of Iwir-mupi, son of Ea-kal. His mother, ME-nin-su-AN, received the goods. A short administrative chit confirming that the items changed hands and naming the woman who accepted them.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — our engine
Our engineSilver: 3 1/2 small shekels, 1 sheep, 1 (measure of) first-quality barley — (from/for) Iwir-mupi, son of Ea-kal: ME-nin-su-AN, his mother, received (it).
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Transliteration
_ku3#-babbar_ 3(asz@c) 1/2(asz@c) _gin2 tur_ 1(asz@c) _udu_ 1(asz@c) _sze sag_ i-wi-ir-mu-pi5 _dumu_ e2-a-kal ME-nin-su-AN _ama_-su im-hu-ra
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — MAD 5, 084. 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: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P215407) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from engine:claude-fable-5 (2026-09-20/v8-evolved).
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