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ADB 17 (P334947)

Administrative, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationADB 17
IDP334947
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreAdministrative
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa11 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse Column i [0:3] o i 1'1'–o i 3'3'[...] vegetable [garden; ......]sâ; [... in all], 3.
Obverse Column ii [0:2] o ii 1'1'–o ii 2'2'[x hectares] of arable land [...], [x hectares] under cultivation [therein].
Obverse Column ii [2:4] o ii 3'3'–o ii 4'4'[... vegetable] garden [......]
Obverse Column ii [4:5] o ii 5'5'–o ii 5'5'Se['-......];
Obverse Column ii [5:6] o ii 6'6'–o ii 6'6'Di[......];
Obverse Column ii [6:8] o ii 7'7'–o ii 8'8'20 hectares [of arable land ...], in the town of Me[h...].
Obverse Column ii [8:9] o ii 9'9'–o ii 9'9'[A]šira, ditto [...]

Transliteration (ATF)

From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o i
1'[x x x x {giš}SAR] {u₂}SAR
2'[x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-sa-a
3'[x x x PAB] 03
o ii
1'[x x ANŠE] A.ŠA₃ [x x x]
2'[x x ANŠE] ar-šu₂ [ina ŠA₃-bi]
3'[x x x x] {giš}SAR {[u₂}SAR]
4'{1}[x x x x x x x x]
5'{1}se-[eʾ—x x x x x x]
6'{1}di-[x x x x x x x]
7'20 ANŠE [A.ŠA₃ x x x x x]
8'ina {uru}me-⸢eh⸣-[x x x x]
9'{1}a]-ši-ra [x x x x x x]

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