ADD 0493 (P335431)
Legal, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0493 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335431 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'r 1'–r 4'4' | [Whoever ... breaks the contract], whet[her NN or his sons], grandsons or [...], and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Mannu-ki-Arbail [and his sons], |
| Reverse [4:8] r 5'5'–r 8'8' | shall place two minas of silver and one mina of gold in the lap of Ninurta residing in Calah. He shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | Witness Qurdi-Issar. Witness Ginnaya. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [Wit]ness Habasti. |
| Reverse [10:11] r 11'11'–r 11'11' | [Witness] Malezazi. |
| Reverse [11:12] r 12'12'–r 12'12' | [Witness] Nabû-taklak. Witness Nabû-zeru-[ka''in]. |
| Reverse [12:13] r 13'13'–r 13'13' | [Witness] Nabû-belu-ka''in. Witness [NN]. |
| Reverse [13:14] r 14'14'–r 14'14' | [Witness Še]p-Aššur. [...]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | lu-[u {1}x x x lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂] | |
| 2' | lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ lu-u [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ša TA@v {1}man-nu—ki—arba-il₃ [u₃ DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂] | |
| 4' | de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-u-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 5' | 02 MA.NA KUG.UD 01 MA.NA KUG.GI | |
| 6' | ina bur-ki {d}MAŠ a-šib {uru}kal₃-hi GAR-an | |
| 7' | kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ a-na EN-MEŠ-šu₂ GUR | |
| 8' | ina de-ni-šu₂ DUG₄.DUG₄ la i-laq-qi | |
| 9' | IGI {1}qur-di—{d}15 IGI {1}gi-in-na-a.a | |
| 10' | ⸢IGI⸣ {1}ha—ba-as-ti | |
| 11' | [IGI] {1}ma-le-e-za-zi | |
| 12' | [IGI] {1}{d}PA—tak₃-lak IGI {1}{d}PA—⸢NUMUN⸣—[GIN] | |
| 13' | [IGI] {1}{d}PA—EN—GIN IGI {1}[x x x x x] | |
| 14' | [IGI {1}⸢GIR₃⸣.2—aš-šur [x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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