ADD 0789 (P335643)
Legal Transaction, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 0789 |
|---|---|
| ID | P335643 |
| 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' | [...] his [wi]fe, |
| Obverse [1:2] 2'2'–2'2' | [...] his [wi]fe, |
| Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3' | [...] his daughter, |
| Obverse [4:5] 5'5'–5'5' | [... ...]-ili, his wife, |
| Obverse [5:6] 6'6'–6'6' | [in all x persons, servant]s [of ...] — |
| Obverse [6:7] 7'7'–7'7' | [...] has contra[cted] |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1'1'–r 7'7' | [Whoever in the futur]e, at any tim[e, lodges a complai]nt and breaks the contract, [shall pla]ce [x mina of silver (and) x] mina of gold [in the lap of Iš]tar residing in [..., and shall retu]rn the money [tenfold to its owner. He shall contest in his lawsuit and n]ot succeed. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [......]-iqbi |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [...], overseer of women. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [......]ribi |
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 x] ⸢MI₂⸣-šu₂ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] ⸢MI₂⸣-šu₂ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] DUMU.MI₂-su | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x {1}x x x]—DINGIR MI₂-šu₂ | |
| 6' | [PAB x ZI-MEŠ ARAD]-MEŠ-ni | |
| 7' | [ša {1}x x x x x] u₂-⸢piš⸣-[ma] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [man-nu ša₂ ina ur]-⸢kiš⸣ ina ma-te-[ma] | |
| 2' | [i-za-qu-pa]-ni GIL-u-ni | |
| 3' | [x MA.NA KUG.UD x] MA.NA KUG.GI | |
| 4' | [ina bur-ki {d}IŠ].TAR a-šib-bat | |
| 5' | [x x x x i-šak]-kan kas-pu | |
| 6' | [ana 10-MEŠ ana EN-šu₂ GUR]-ra | |
| 7' | [ina de-ni-šu₂ DUG₄.DUG₄-ma] ⸢la⸣ i-laq-qi | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x x]—iq-bi | |
| 9' | [x x x x x] {lu₂v}GAL—MI₂-MEŠ {lu₂v}GAL—MI₂-MEŠ | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x x]-ri-bi | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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