ADD 0450 (P335391)
Legal Transaction, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0450 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335391 |
| 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' | [NN has contracted and] bought them for 5 minas of silver [by (the mina) of Car]chemish. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'–o 4'4' | [The money is p]aid [completely]. (Those) people are purchased and [acquired]. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation [is void]. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 5'5'–o 7'7' | [Wh]oever in the future, breaks the contract, whether [...]ri or his sons or his grandsons [or his brothers or his ne]phews |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [Witness NN], head porter. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [Witness NN], exorcist. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [Witness NN], chief exorcist of house the crown prince. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [Witness NN], porter of Nabû. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [Witness NN], porter of the palace. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [Witness NN], court clerk. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [Month ..., ...th day] eponym year of [NN]. |
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' | [x x x x x x ina] ŠA₃ 05 MA.NA KUG.UD | |
| 2' | [ina ša₂ {uru}gar]-ga-mis il-qi₂ | |
| 3' | [kas-pu gam-mur] ⸢ta⸣-din UN-MEŠ zar-pu | |
| 4' | [laq-qi-u] tu₂-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ | |
| 5' | [la-aš₂-šu₂] ⸢man⸣-nu ša₂ ina ur-kiš GIL-u-ni lu-u | |
| 6' | {1}x x x]-ri lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 7' | [lu-u PAB-MEŠ-šu₂ lu-u] ⸢DUMU⸣—PAB-MEŠ-šu ⸢DUMU⸣—PAB-MEŠ-šu | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [IGI {1}x x x x] {lu₂}GAL—I₃.DU₈ {lu₂}GAL—I₃.DU₈ | |
| 2' | [IGI {1}x x x x x] {lu₂}MAŠ.MAŠ | |
| 3' | [IGI {1}x x x x x] {lu₂}GAL—MAŠ.MAŠ {lu₂}GAL—MAŠ.MAŠ ša₂ E₂ A—MAN A—MAN | |
| 4' | [IGI {1}x x x x x] {lu₂}I₃.DU₈ ša₂ {d}PA | |
| 5' | [IGI {1}x x x x x] {lu₂}I₃.DU₈ ša₂ E₂.GAL | |
| 6' | [IGI {1}x x x x {lu₂]}⸢ša⸣—de-na-ni | |
| 7' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ lim-mu [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
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