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ADD 0556 (P335485)

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

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DesignationADD 0556
IDP335485
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] 1'1'–3'3'[The money is paid] comp[letely. That ...] is purchased and [acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or] litigation [is void].
Obverse [3:6] 4'4'–6'6'[Whoever ...]..., at any t[ime, breaks the contract, whether ... o]r [his] sons [or his grandsons] or [his] brothers [...]

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)
1'[x x kas-pu] ga-[mur ta-din]
2'[x šu-a-tu₂] za-rip [la-qi tu-a-ru]
3'[de-e-nu] DUG₄.DUG₄ [la-aš₂-šu₂]
4'[man-nu ša₂ ur]-kiš ina ma-⸢ti⸣-[ma GIL-u-ni]
5'[lu-u {1}x x x lu]-u DUMU-MEŠ-[šu₂]
6'[lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂] DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂] lu-u PAB-MEŠ-[šu₂ x x x x]

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