ADD 0559 (P335488)
Legal Transaction, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0559 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335488 |
| 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 [0:1] 1'1'–1'1' | [whether NN] or his son |
| Obverse [1:2] 2'2'–2'2' | [against NN] or his sons |
| Obverse [2:5] 3'3'– | [... comes forward and seeks and institutes] a lawsuit [or litigation] |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | shall place [x minas of] silver and 10 minas (of gold) in the lap of [Aššur re]siding in Ešarra, shall place [x mina of silver] (and) one mina of p[ure] gold [in the lap of Ištar residing in] Nineveh, [and shall return the money tenfold] to its owners. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [x x x x x] lu DUMU.UŠ-šu₂ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] TA@v A-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x ša e-la-an-ni] de-nu | |
| 4' | [DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-u-ni i-gar]-ru-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x MA.NA] KUG.UD 10 MA.NA o ina bur-ki | |
| 2 | [aš-šur a]-šib E₂.ŠAR₂.RA GAR-an | |
| 3 | [x MA.NA KUG.UD x] MA.NA KUG.GI ⸢sak⸣-[ru] | |
| 4 | [ina bur-ki {d}15 a-ši-bat] {uru}NINA{ki} GAR-⸢an⸣ | |
| 5 | [kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ] ana EN-MEŠ-šu₂ [GUR] | |
| 6 | [ina de-ni-šu₂ DUG₄.DUG₄]-⸢ma la₃ TI⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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