ADD 0254 (P335201)
Legal Transaction, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0254 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335201 |
| 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 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa14 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2' | Mullissu-ummi, his maid (and) his 2 sons, in all 3 persons — |
| Obverse [2:7] o 3'3'–o 7'7' | Ninuayu, eunuch of the king, has contracted and bought the people from Abdî for half mina of [silver] by the copper mina. |
| Obverse [7:14] o 8'8'– | The money is paid [completely]. Those people are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or [l]itigation is void. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | [Whoe]ver breaks the contract, shall give [x] minas of silver to redeem the [people]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [Witness] Abdi-Se. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | Witness Šamaš-killanni. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | Witness Nabû-šallim. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | Witness Nabû-takilka-šatbi. |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | {mi₂}{d}NIN.⸢LIL₂⸣—AMA GEME₂-šu₂ | |
| 2' | 02 DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ PAB 03 ZI-MEŠ | |
| 3' | u₂-piš-ma {1}{uru}NINA{ki}a.a | |
| 4' | {lu₂}SAG—MAN UN-MEŠ TA@v IGI | |
| 5' | {1}ab-di-i | |
| 6' | ina ŠA₃-bi 1/2 MA.NA [KUG.UD] | |
| 7' | ina 01 MA.NA-e URUDU-[MEŠ] | |
| 8' | il-qi kas-pu [gam-mur] | |
| 9' | SUM-ni UN-MEŠ šu-a-tu₂ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10' | zar-pu la₃-TI | |
| 11' | tu-a-ru de-nu | |
| 12' | ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄ la-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [man]-nu ša₂ GIL-u-ni | |
| 2 | [x] MA.NA KUG.UD SUM-an | |
| 3 | [UN-MEŠ] u₂-še-ṣa | |
| 4 | [IGI] {1}ab-di—se-eʾ | |
| 5 | IGI {1}{d}UTU—ki-la-a-ni | |
| 6 | IGI {1}{d}PA—šal-lim | |
| 7 | IGI {1}{⸢d}PA⸣—UR-ka—ZI | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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