ADD 0460 (P335401)
Legal, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0460 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335401 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | [An estate of x hec]tares of fie[ld in] Kannu', adjoining the side road of Kannu' and the road that leads to Nuhub; |
| Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'–o 5'5' | including a garden [...] adjoining the garden of [...]ašidi, |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'–o 7'7' | a total of 40 (hectares of) land [......] |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | He shall g[ive] 10 minas of silver [and x mi]nas [of pure gold] to Ištar residing in Nineveh, and shall return the money tenfold to its owners. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. The judge shall not listen to his case. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [Witness] Ar[ze]zu, cohort commander. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [Witness Habasti], head porter. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [Witness Kiṣir-Issar], cohort commander. |
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' | [E₂ x] ⸢ANŠE A⸣.[ŠA₃ ina] {⸢uru}ka-an⸣-[nu-uʾ] | |
| 2' | ⸢SUHUR⸣ um-me ⸢ša⸣ {uru}ka-an-nu-[uʾ] | |
| 3' | SUHUR KASKAL ša a-na {uru}nu-⸢hu⸣-bi ⸢DU⸣-[u-ni] | |
| 4' | {giš}SAR ina ŠA₃-bi [x x]-⸢u₂⸣-ri | |
| 5' | SUHUR {giš}SAR ša [x (x) x]+⸢x⸣-a-ši-di | |
| 6' | PAB-ma 40 A.ŠA₃ ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x x x x⸣ | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | 10 MA.NA KUG.UD [x MA].⸢NA⸣ [KUG.GI sak-ru] | |
| 2' | ina {d}IŠ.TAR a-ši-pat {uru}ni-nu-a ⸢SUM⸣-[an] | |
| 3' | kas-pu ina 10-MEŠ-te ina EN-MEŠ-šu₂ u₂-⸢GUR⸣ | |
| 4' | ina de-ni-šu₂ DUG₄.DUG₄-ma la i-la-qi | |
| 5' | de-e-šu₂ DI.KUD la i-ša₂-mu-u | |
| 6' | ⸢IGI⸣ {1}⸢ar-ze⸣-zu {lu₂v}GAL—ki-⸢ṣir⸣ {lu₂v}GAL—ki-⸢ṣir⸣ | |
| 7' | [IGI {1}ha—ba-sa-tu₂] ⸢GAL⸣—{lu₂v}I₃.DU₈-⸢MEŠ⸣ ⸢GAL⸣—{lu₂v}I₃.DU₈-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 8' | [IGI {1}ki-ṣir—{d}15 {lu₂v]}⸢GAL—ki-ṣir⸣ {lu₂v]}⸢GAL—ki-ṣir⸣ | |
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