ADD 0455 (P335396)
Legal, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0455 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335396 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] his son [...], |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [..., a] suckling [child], a total of 6 per[sons, servants of] Bi-D[adi]; |
| Obverse [3:6] o 4'4'–o 6'6' | [an estate of x hectares of land, x] thousand 600 vines [...], a well, in the town [...] — |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'–o 8'8' | S[e'-madi], village manager [of the crown prince] has contracted |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | [He shall return the money] tenfold t[o its owners]. He shall contest [in] his lawsuit [and not succeed]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | Witness Manasseh, [...]. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | Witness Sanî, chief [...] of the town of Zi[...]. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | Witness Se'-nuri, [...]. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | Witness Bel-mu[...], horse trainer of the royal bo[dyguard]. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | Witness [...]. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | Witness [...]-matu-taqqin. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | Witness [...]... |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | Witness [...]la [from] the town Amu[...]. |
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 x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x] DUMU-šu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x DUMU] ⸢GA⸣ PAB 06 ZI-[MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ] | |
| 4' | [ša {1}bi—⸢da⸣-[di E₂ x ANŠE A.ŠA₃] | |
| 5' | [x]-lim-06-me {giš}⸢til⸣-[lit x x x] | |
| 6' | ⸢PU₂⸣ ina ŠA₃-bi {uru}[x x x x x] | |
| 7' | u₂-piš-ma {1}⸢se⸣-[eʾ—ma-a-di] | |
| 8' | {lu₂v}GAL—URU-MEŠ {lu₂v}GAL—URU-MEŠ [ša DUMU—MAN] DUMU—MAN] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [a]-⸢na⸣ 10-MEŠ-⸢te⸣ [a-na EN-MEŠ-šu₂ GUR] | |
| 2 | [ina de]-ni-šu₂ DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣-[ma la i-laq-qi] | |
| 3 | [IGI {1}mu-na-se-e {[lu₂v}x x x x] | |
| 4 | [IGI {1}sa-ni-i {lu₂v}GAL—[x x x] | |
| 5 | {uru}zi-[x x x] | |
| 6 | [IGI {1}se-e—ZALAG₂ [x x x] | |
| 7 | IGI {1}EN—⸢mu⸣-[x (x)] {⸢lu₂v⸣}{giš}GIGIR qur-bu-[ti] | |
| 8 | [IGI {1}{⸢d⸣}[x]+⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 9 | [IGI {1}x]-ri-[x]—KUR—LAL | |
| 10 | [IGI {1}x]-ri-i-U o | |
| 11 | [IGI {1}x]+⸢x⸣-la {uru}a-mu-⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
Sources & licences
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