Old Babylonian Model Contracts

[First posted in AWOL 29 March 2015, updated 18 July 2020]

Old Babylonian Model Contracts

This research project aims to provide editions and translations of all known Old Babylonian Model Contracts. The project is directed by Gabriella Spada.

A corpus of model contracts belonging to the Hilprecht-Collection, Jena, has been edited and discussed by Gabriella Spada, Sumerian Model Contracts from the Old Babylonian Period in the Hilprecht Collection Jena, Texte und Materialien der Frau Prof. Hilprecht-Collection (TMH) 11, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018.

Individual manuscripts in catalogue	340
Individual witnesses transliterated	170
Individual witnesses lemmatized	170
Number of words in corpus	10219

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Old Babylonian Model Contracts is a component of The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC)