ADD 0495 (P335433)
Legal Transaction, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0495 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335433 |
| 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' | [...... are purchased and acq]uired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. |
| Obverse [2:14] o 3'3'– | Whoever in the future, [at any t]ime, lo[d]ges a complaint (or) breaks the contract, [whet]her Bessi-na'dat or his prefect or his go[ver]nor or any relative of his [o]r the m[ayo]r of his city, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Bel-duri and [his sons and] his [grandsons, shall place one ta]lent of [refi]ned silver (and) one mina of p[ur]e gold in the lap of [Išt]ar residing in Nineveh, [shall return the mone]y [tenfo]ld [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] ⸢ša x x x x x x za⸣-[ar-pu] | |
| 2' | [la]-qi-u₂ tu-a-ru de-e-nu | |
| 3' | DUG₄.DUG₄ la-aš₂-šu₂ man-nu ša ina ur-kiš | |
| 4' | ⸢ma⸣-te-ma i-za-<qu>-pa-an-ni GIL-u-ni | |
| 5' | [lu]-u {1}be₂-e-si—I lu-u {lu₂v}GAR-nu-šu₂ | |
| 6' | [lu]-u {lu₂v}⸢EN.NAM⸣-su lu-u mam₂-ma-mu-šu₂ | |
| 7' | lu-u ⸢ha⸣-[za]-⸢nu⸣ URU-šu₂ TA@v {1}EN—BAD₃ | |
| 8' | ⸢DUMU⸣-[MEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ]-šu₂ DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ]-šu₂ de-e-nu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄ ub-ta-u-ni 01 GU₂].UN KUG.UD | |
| 2 | [LUH]-u 01 MA.NA KUG.GI ⸢sak-ru⸣ ina bur-ki | |
| 3 | {[d}IŠ].TAR a-šib-bat {[uru]}NINA{ki} | |
| 4 | [GAR-an KUG].⸢UD⸣ a-[na 10-⸢MEŠ⸣-te | |
| 5 | [a-na EN-šu₂ GUR ina de-ni-šu₂] DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣ o | |
Sources & licences
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