ADD 0492 (P335430)
Legal, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0492 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335430 |
| 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' | [...] of Arbela [...] — |
| Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'–o 4'4' | Mušallim-Issar, [village manager, has contracted, purcha]sed, and bought (him) [for] 2 homers of barley (equalling) 80 minas of copper at its current value. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 5'5'–o 7'7' | The money is paid completely. That [man] is purchased, acquired, paid off, and cleared. [Any revoca]tion, lawsuit or litigation is void. |
| Obverse [7:11] o 8'8'–o 11'11' | [Whoever in the] future, in far-off days, [whether ...]banu or his sons, [grandsons] or labour-duty superior, seeks [a lawsuit or lit]igation against Mušallim-Issar, |
| Obverse [11:16] o 12'12'– | shall pay 5 minas of silver (and) one mina of gold [to Ištar of] Arbela, and shall return [the money] tenfold to its owners. He shall contest [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' | [x x x x x] nu [x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x]-⸢li⸣ ša {uru}arba-⸢il₃⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 3' | [u₂-piš]-ma {1}mu-šal-lim—d.INNIN {lu₂}[GAL—URU-MEŠ] {lu₂}[GAL—URU-MEŠ] | |
| 4' | [ina ŠA₃] 80 MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ 02 ANŠE {še}PAD-MEŠ a-ki pa-ša-[ri] | |
| 5' | [i]-⸢zi⸣-rip i-si-qi kas-pu ga-mur ta-di-ni | |
| 6' | [LU₂] ⸢šu⸣-a-tu₂ za-rip la-a-qi₂ a-pil za-a-ku | |
| 7' | [tu-a]-⸢ru⸣ DI.KUD DUG₄.DUG₄ la-a-šu₂ | |
| 8' | [man-nu ša a]-⸢na⸣ ur-kiš a-na UD-me a-ṣa-ti | |
| 9' | [lu {1}x x]+⸢x⸣-ba-nu lu DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 10' | [lu DUMU—DUMU]-MEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—DUMU]-MEŠ-šu₂ lu EN—il-ki-šu₂ EN—il-ki-šu₂ | |
| 11' | [de-nu] ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄ TA@v {1}mu-šal-lim—d.INNIN | |
| 12' | [ub-ta]-ʾu-u-ni 05 MA.NA KUG.UD 01 MA.NA KUG.GI | |
| 13' | [a-na {d}15 ša] {uru}arba-il₃ SUM-an | |
| 14' | [kas-pu a]-na 10-MEŠ-te a-na EN-MEŠ-šu₂ GUR-ar₂ | |
| 15' | [ina] ⸢DI⸣.KUD-šu₂ ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄ la-a i-la-qi | |
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