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ADD 0217 (P335164)

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

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DesignationADD 0217
IDP335164
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLegal Transaction
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa14 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2'[...]-dibeša-libbi, maid of Se'-ayyali —
Obverse [2:5] o 3'3'–o 5'5'Ṣalmu-ahhe, has contracted and boug[ht] her for 1 1/2 mina of silver by (the mina) of [Carchemish] from Se'-ayyali.
Obverse [5:8] o 6'6'–o 8'8'The money is paid completely. That woman purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litiga[tion is void].
Obverse [8:14] o 9'9'–o 14'14'Whoever in the future, at any [time], lodges a complaint and br[eaks the contract], whether Se'-ayya[li or his sons] (or) his grandsons o[r his brothers, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation] against Ṣalmu-ahh[e, his sons and] hi[s grand]sons

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)
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1'{[mi₂}x]+⸢x⸣-di-be₂-e-ša₂—ŠA₃-bi GEME₂-[šu₂]
2'ša {1}{d}se-eʾ—a.a-li
3'u₂-piš-ma {1}ṣal-mu—PAB-meš o
4'ina ŠA₃-bi 01 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD ina ša₂ {uru}[gar-ga-mis]
5'TA IGI {1}se-eʾ—a.a-li il-⸢qi⸣
6'kas-pu ga-mur ta-ad-din
7'MI₂ šu-a-tu₂ zar-pat la-qi-⸢at⸣
8'tu-a-ru de-e-nu da-ba-[bu la-aš₂-šu]
9'man-nu ša ina ur-kiš ina ma-[te-ma]
10'i-za-qu-pa-ni ⸢GIL⸣-[u-ni]
11'lu-u {1}se-eʾ—a.a-[li lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂]
12'DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ ⸢lu⸣-[u PAB-MEŠ-šu₂]
13'TA@v {1}ṣal-mu—PAB-⸢MEŠ⸣ [DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂]
14'[DUMU]—⸢DUMU⸣-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ [DUMU]—⸢DUMU⸣-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ [de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄]

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