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ADD 0229 (P335176)

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

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DesignationADD 0229
IDP335176
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLegal
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa06 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22Seal of Urda-Issar, owner of the people being sold.
Obverse [2:8] o 33–o 88Hosea and his two wives, Me'sa and Badia; Se'-gabbâ and Bel-Harran-taklak; two weaned daughters; a total of 7 persons, servants of Urda-Issar —
Obverse [8:11] o 99–Se'-madi has contracted and bought them for 3 minas of silver.
Bottom [1:6] b.e. 1111–The money is paid completely. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void.
Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44Witness Bel-nuri, merchant.
Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55Witness Am-yate'u.
Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66Witness Sangî.
Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77Witness Kuisâ.
Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88Witness Se'-duri.
Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99Witness (blank)
Reverse [9:11] r 1010–Month Tishri (VII), eponym year of Dananu.

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
1{na₄}KIŠIB {1}ARAD—{d}15
2EN UN-MEŠ SUM-ni
3{1}u₂-si-aʾ 02 MI₂-MEŠ-šu₂
4{mi₂}me-eʾ-sa-a {mi₂}ba-di-a
5{1}se—gab-a {1}EN—KASKAL—tak₃-lak
602 DUMU.MI₂-MEŠ pir-su
7PAB 07 ZI-MEŠ {lu₂v}ARAD-MEŠ
8ša {1}ARAD—{d}15
9u₂-piš-ma {1}se—ma-a-di
b.e.
10ina ŠA₃-bi 03 MA.NA KUG.UD
11il-qi kas-pu
r
1ga-mur ta-ad-din
2tu-a-ru de-e-nu
3DUG₄.DUG₄ la-a-šu₂
4IGI {1}EN—ZALAG₂ {lu₂v}tam-QAR
5IGI {1}am—ia-te-eʾ-u₂
6IGI {1}sa-an-gi-i
7IGI {1}ku-i-sa-a
8IGI {1}se—BAD₃
9IGI {1}($blank$)
10{iti}DUL lim-mu {1}da-na-nu

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