ADD 0423 (P335366)
Legal, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0423 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335366 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa06 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2' | servants of Bar-h[atê] in the town of Ti'i — |
| Obverse [2:5] o 3'3'–o 5'5' | Šum[ma-ilani] has contracted and bought them from Bar-hatê for 6 minas of silver by [the mina of the king]. |
| Obverse [5:12] o 6'6'– | The money is paid completely. That field, house, people, and garden are purchased and acqui[red]. Any revocation, law[suit], or litigation is [void]. |
| Bottom [0:9] b.e. 12'b.e. 12'– | Whoever, at any ti[me, breaks the contract], whether Bar-ha[tê], his sons, or a neighbour or relative of his, and se[eks] a lawsuit or litigation against Šumm[a-ilani and his sons], |
| Reverse [4:9] r 55–r 99 | shall place 10 minas of silver and one mi[na of gold] in the lap of Iš[tar residing] in Nineveh, and shall ret[urn] the mon[ey tenfold] to its owners. He shall con[test] in his lawsuit [and not succeed]. |
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' | ⸢ARAD-MEŠ {1}bar—ha⸣-[te-e] | |
| 2' | ina {uru}ti-ʾi-[i] | |
| 3' | u₂-piš-ma {1}⸢šum⸣-[mu—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni] | |
| 4' | TA@v IGI {1}bar—<ha>-te-[e] | |
| 5' | ina ŠA₃ 06 MA.NA KUG.UD ina [MA.NA ša MAN] | |
| 6' | il-qi₂ kas-pu gam-⸢mur⸣ | |
| 7' | ta-ad-⸢din⸣ A.ŠA₃ E₂ | |
| 8' | UN-MEŠ {giš}SAR šu-a-[tu₂] | |
| 9' | za-ar₂-pu laq-[qi₂-u] | |
| 10' | tu-a-ru de-[e-nu] | |
| 11' | ⸢DUG₄.DUG₄ la⸣-[aš₂-šu₂] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12' | ⸢man-nu⸣ ša₂ ina ur-[kiš GIL-u-ni] | |
| 13' | lu-u {1}bar—ha-⸢at⸣-[e] | |
| 14' | lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ [o] | |
| 15' | lu-u qur-⸢ub⸣-[šu₂ o] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | lu-u mam₂-ma-⸢nu⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 2 | ša₂ TA@v {1}šum₂-⸢mu⸣—[DINGIR-MEŠ-ni] | |
| 3 | de-e-nu DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣ | |
| 4 | ub-ta-ʾu-[ni] | |
| 5 | 10 MA.NA KUG.UD 01 MA.[NA KUG.GI] | |
| 6 | ina bur-ki {d}IŠ.[TAR a-ši-bat] | |
| 7 | NINA{ki} GAR-an kas-[pu a-na 10-MEŠ] | |
| 8 | a-na EN-MEŠ-šu₂ ⸢GUR⸣-[ra] | |
| 9 | ⸢ina de-ni-šu₂ DUG₄⸣.[DUG₄-ma] | |
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