ADD 0400 (P335343)
Business / Contracts, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0400 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335343 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Business / Contracts |
| 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 1o 1–o 1o 1 | Seal of Asalluhi-remanni, |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | seal of Hidatani, [ow]ner of the field being sold. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 88–o 88 | An estate [......] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 99–o 99 | o[f ......] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 1010–o 1010 | adjoini[ng] the village of Ṭab-[...] — |
| Obverse [6:8] o 1111–o 1212 | [Kakk]ullanu has contracted and bought it for 1/2 mina of silver. |
| Obverse [8:13] o 1313– | The mone[y] is paid completely. That field is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. |
| Bottom [0:9] b.e. 17b.e. 17– | Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint or breaks the contract, whether these men or their sons or their grandsons, and seeks a lawsuit against Kakkullanu, his sons and his grandsons, |
| Reverse [6:9] r 77–r 99 | shall return the money tenfold to its owner. He shall conte[st] in his lawsuit and not succ[eed]. |
| Reverse [9:11] r 1010–r 1111 | Month Iyyar (II), 15th day, eponym year of Kanunayu, of Dur-Šarr[uken]. |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | Witness Nabû-tariṣ, ša šēpi guard. |
| Reverse [12:13] r 1313–r 1313 | Witness Aššur-killanni, royal bodyguard. |
| Reverse [13:14] r 1414–r 1414 | Witness Balasî, ditto. |
| Reverse [14:15] r 1515–r 1515 | Witness Mannu-ki-Nabû, ša šēpi guard. |
| Reverse [15:16] r 1616–r 1616 | Witness Inurtî, ditto. |
| Reverse [16:17] r 1717–r 1717 | Witness Arbailayu, ditto. |
| Reverse [17:18] r 1818–r 1818 | Witness Urdu-apli, ditto. |
| Reverse [18:20] r 1919– | Witness Qarhâ, ditto. |
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 | {na₄}KIŠIB {1}{d}ASAR.LU₂.HI—rem₂-a-ni | |
| 2 | {na₄}KIŠIB {1}hi-da-ta-ni | |
| 3 | ⸢EN⸣ A.ŠA₃ SUM-ni | |
| 8 | E₂ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | gab-⸢di {uru⸣}ŠE—{1}⸢DUG₃⸣.[GA-x x] | |
| 11 | u₂-⸢piš⸣-ma {1}[ku]-⸢ku⸣-la-nu | |
| 12 | ina ŠA₃-bi 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD | |
| 13 | il-qi kas-⸢pu⸣ gam-mur | |
| 14 | ta-ad-din A.ŠA₃ šu-a-tu₂ | |
| 15 | za-rip la-TI tu-a-ru | |
| 16 | de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 17 | la-aš₂-šu₂ man-nu | |
| 18 | ša ina ur-kiš | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina ma-te-ma i-za-qu-pa-ni | |
| 2 | i-GIL-u-ni lu LU₂-MEŠ-e | |
| 3 | an-nu-te lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂-nu | |
| 4 | lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂-nu DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂-nu ša de-e-nu | |
| 5 | TA@v {1}ku-ku-la-ni DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 6 | DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ ub-⸢ta⸣-u-ni | |
| 7 | kas-pu ana 10-MEŠ-te a-na EN-šu₂ | |
| 8 | u₂-GUR ina de-ni-šu₂ ⸢DUG₄.DUG₄⸣-[ma] | |
| 9 | la i-⸢laq⸣-[qi] | |
| 10 | {iti}GUD UD 15 lim-me {1}{⸢iti}AB⸣-[a.a] | |
| 11 | ša {uru}BAD₃—{1}⸢MAN⸣—[GIN] | |
| 12 | IGI {1}{d}PA—LAL-iṣ {lu₂v}ša₂—GIR₃.2 | |
| 13 | IGI {1}aš-šur—kil-la-ni {lu₂v}qur-ZAG | |
| 14 | IGI {1}ba-la-si-i {lu₂v}:. | |
| 15 | IGI {1}man-nu—ki—{d}PA {lu₂v}ša₂—GIR₃.2 | |
| 16 | IGI {1}{d}MAŠ-i {lu₂}{<:(ša₂—GIR₃.2)>} | |
| 17 | IGI {1}{uru}arba-il₃-a.a {lu₂}{<:(ša₂—GIR₃.2)>} | |
| 18 | IGI {1}ARAD—DUMU.UŠ {lu₂v}{<:(ša₂—GIR₃.2)>} | |
| 19 | IGI {1}qar-ha-a o {lu₂v}{<:(ša₂—GIR₃.2)>} | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
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