ADD 0265 (P335212)
Legal Transaction, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0265 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335212 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [...]nulamši and Bel-nur[i..., his] servants, |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | Šamaš-eriba and his wife Busuku — |
| Obverse [2:6] o 3'3'–o 6'6' | Isinnayu has contracted, acquired and [purchased from] Kiribtu-Aššur [for] 50 shekels of copper by the mina of [...]. |
| Obverse [6:10] o 7'7'–o 10'10' | The money is [paid] completely. Those [people] are purchased and [acquir]ed. Any revocation, lawsuit or [litigation] is void. |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [Whoever in] the future, at any time, |
| Reverse [1:5] r 2'2'–r 5'5' | shall place [...... in the lap of DN re]siding in [...]. He shall return the [money ten]fold [to] its [owner]s. He shall contest [in] his [law]suit and not succeed. |
| Reverse [5:8] r 6'6'–r 8'8' | [Whoever] breaks the contract and [cont]ravenes, shall give [x m]inas of silver. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [Witness Du]r-Aššur. Witness Ibašši-ilani. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [Witness ...]-malkute. |
| Reverse [10:11] r 11'11'–r 11'11' | [Witness ...]hu. Witness Hiliṣi. |
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' | {1}x]-nu-lam-ši {1}EN—nu-⸢ri⸣ [x x] ⸢ARAD-MEŠ⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 2' | {1}{d]}UTU—SU {mi₂}⸢bu-su-ku⸣ MI₂-šu₂ | |
| 3' | [u₂]-piš-ma {1}i-si-na-a.a | |
| 4' | [TA@v IGI] {1}ki-ri-bi-tu₂—aš-šur | |
| 5' | [ina ŠA₃] 50 URUDU-MEŠ ina 01 MA.NA-e | |
| 6' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-zi-rip | |
| 7' | [i-si-qi] kas-pu ga-mur | |
| 8' | [ta-din UN]-MEŠ šu-a-tu za-ar-pu | |
| 9' | [la-qi]-u₂ tu₂-a-ru de-nu | |
| 10' | [DUG₄.DUG₄] la-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 11' | [man-nu ša₂ ina] ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [ina bur-ki {d}x a]-šib | |
| 2' | {[uru}x x x] ⸢i⸣-šak-kan | |
| 3' | [kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-a-te | |
| 4' | [a-na EN]-MEŠ-šu₂ u₂-ta-ra | |
| 5' | [ina de]-ni-šu₂ DUG₄.DUG₄ la TI | |
| 6' | [man-nu] ša GIL-u₂-ni | |
| 7' | [i]-⸢bal⸣-a-kat₃-u₂-ni | |
| 8' | [x] ⸢MA⸣.NA KUG.UD SUM-an | |
| 9' | [IGI {1}⸢BAD₃⸣—aš-šur IGI {1}I₃.GAL₂—DINGIR-MEŠ | |
| 10' | [IGI {1}x x]+⸢x⸣-mal-ku-u-te | |
| 11' | [IGI {1}x x x x]-hu IGI {1}hi-⸢li⸣-ṣi | |
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