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ADD 0554 (P335483)

Legal Transaction, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationADD 0554
IDP335483
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLegal Transaction
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa14 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3'[Šamaš-na'id, ... has contra]cted [(and bought) fro]m Ba[lṭaya, for] one mina [......]
Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1'[......] whether
Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3'[......] seeks [a lawsuit or litigation against] Šamaš-na'id,
Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5'[shall plac]e [x minas] of silver (and) one mina [gold in the lap of] Ištar of [...],
Reverse [5:7] r 6'6'–r 7'7'[shall give] 1 talent of t[in to] the governor of [his] ci[ty],
Reverse [7:9] r 8'8'–r 9'9'[and shall return the money] tenfold [to] its [owner]s.

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1'[u₂-piš]-ma {1}{d}[UTU—I x x x]
2'[TA@v pa]-an {1}⸢bal⸣-[ṭa-a.a]
3'[ina ŠA₃-bi] 01 MA.NA [x x x x]
r
1'[x x x x x] lu-u
2'[x x x x x TA@v] {1}{d}UTU—I [de-nu]
3'[DUG₄.DUG₄] ub-ta-u-[ni]
4'[x MA.NA] KUG.UD 01 MA.NA [KUG.GI]
5'[ina bur-ki {d]}15 ša {uru}[x x x]
6'[GAR]-⸢an⸣ 01 GU₂.UN [AN.NA]
7'[a-na {lu₂]}EN.NAM ⸢URU⸣-[šu₂ SUM-an]
8'[kas-pu a]-na 10-[MEŠ-te]
9'[a-na EN]-MEŠ-[šu₂ GUR x x]

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