ADD 0321 (P335266)
Legal Transaction, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0321 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335266 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1'1'–o 8'8' | Now they have come to an agreement. He shall hand over Kurra-dimri, [the daug]hter of Attar-qamu, the scribe, (to) Šamaš-kenu-uṣur, the son of Samaku, in lieu of the blood money. He will wash off the blood. If he does not hand over the woman, they will kill him on Samaku's grave. |
| Obverse [8:11] o 9'9'–o 11'11' | Whoever breaks the contract with the other party, [shall pa]y 10 minas of silver. Aššur and Šamaš [are his prosecutors]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | Eponym year of [NN, ... of] Aššurbanipal, kin[g of Assyria]. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | [Witness NN], chie[f ...]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | Witness Adallal, adjutant of [...]. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | Witness Adad-baba'u, adjutant of the crown prince. |
| Reverse [6:9] r 7'7'–r 9'9' | Witness Aššur-ila'i. |
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' | ⸢u₂⸣-ma-a it-ta-<$at$>-ru-uṣ | |
| 2' | [is]-sa-hi-iš {mi₂}kur-a—di-im-ri | |
| 3' | ⸢DUMU⸣.MI₂-su ša₂ {1}a-tar—qa-mu | |
| 4' | {⸢lu₂⸣}A.BA {1}{d}UTU—GIN—PAB DUMU-šu₂ | |
| 5' | ⸢ša₂⸣ {1}sa-ma-ku ku-um da-me i-dan | |
| 6' | da-me i-ma-si šum-ma MI₂ | |
| 7' | la i-din ina UGU qa-bu-ri | |
| 8' | ša {1}sa-ma-ku i-du-ku-šu | |
| 9' | man-nu ša₂ ina UGU man-nu BAL-u-ni | |
| 10' | 10 MA.NA ⸢KUG.UD SUM-an⸣ AN.ŠAR₂ {d}UTU | |
| 11' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | lim-⸢mu⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | {1}AN.ŠAR₂—DU₃—A ⸢MAN⸣ [KUR—aš-šur IGI {1}x x x] | |
| 3' | o {lu₂}⸢GAL⸣—[x x x x] | |
| 4' | IGI {1}a-da-lal {lu₂}DUMU—ŠU.2 {lu₂}DUMU—ŠU.2 ša₂ [x x x] | |
| 5' | ⸢IGI⸣ {1}{d]}⸢IM⸣—ba-ba-u {lu₂}DUMU—ŠU.2 {lu₂}DUMU—ŠU.2 | |
| 6' | ša DUMU—MAN DUMU—MAN | |
| 7' | IGI {1}⸢aš-šur⸣—DINGIR-a.a | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x x x x]-hu | |
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