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ADD 0249 (P335196)
Legal Transaction, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0249 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335196 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Legal Transaction |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | {1}{d}ASAR.LU₂.HI—hu-ut-nu | Asalluhi-hutnu |
| 2' | {1}a-di-i ŠEŠ-šu | Adî is his name |
| 3' | PAB 02 {lu₂}ZI-MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ-ni | in all 2 persons, servants of the king. |
| 4' | ša {1}hu-da-a.a | of Hudaya |
| 5' | u₂-piš-ma {1}NINA{ki}a.a | Nineveh has contracted |
| 6' | {lu₂}SAG ša₂ LUGAL | eunuch of the king |
| 7' | ina ŠA₃-bi 01 MA.NA 30 GIN₂ KUG.UD | for 1 mina 30 shekels of silver |
| 8' | ina ma-ne₂-e ša₂ {kur}gar-ga-mis | by the mina of Carchemish |
| 9' | TA@v IGI {1}hu-da-a.a | from Hudaya |
| 10' | il-qi₂ kas-pu gam-mur ta-din | The money is paid completely. |
| 11' | [LU₂~v]-MEŠ šu-a-te za-⸢ar⸣-[pu] | These men are cleared. |
| 12' | [la-qi₂-u tu-a-ru] | It is acquired and taken. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. |
| b.e. | ||
| 13' | [de-e]-⸢nu DUG₄⸣.[DUG₄] | Lawsuit or litigation |
| 14' | [la]-aš₂-šu man-⸢nu⸣ [ša ina ur-kiš] | Who is it that in the future |
| 15' | u₃ im—ma-te-⸢ma⸣ | and Im-mete-e23 |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-GIL-u-ni | he shall contest. |
| 2 | lu-u {1}hu-da-a.a | or the Hudaya |
| 3 | lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ | or his sons, grandsons or grandsons |
| 4 | TA {1}NINA{ki}a.a | from Nineveh |
| 5 | de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-u-ni | [He shall contest in his lawsuit and] not succeed. |
| 6 | 10 MA.NA KUG.UD 02 MA.NA KUG.GI | 10 minas of silver, 2 mina[s of gold], |
| 7 | ina bur-ki {d}IŠ.TAR ša₂ NINA{ki} | in the lap of Ištar of Nineveh |
| 8 | i-šak-kan kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ | The money is paid completely. |
| 9 | a-na EN-MEŠ-šu₂ GUR ina de-ni-šu | shall return to its owners. In his lawsuit |
| 10 | DUG₄.DUG₄-ma la i-laq-qi | He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. |
| 11 | IGI {1}EN—KALAG-an {lu₂}03.U₅ | Witness Bel-dan, 'third man.' |
| 12 | IGI {1}a-di-i | Witness Adî. |
| 13 | IGI {1}{d}⸢PA⸣—I | Witness: Eppa-eṭir-na'id. |
| 14 | [IGI {1}{d]}IM—se-zib | Witness Adad-sezib. |
| 15 | [x x x x x x x x]—{⸢d}15 | ...-Issar |
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