ADD 1251 (P336012)
Legal, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ADD 1251 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336012 |
| Museum no. | BM 098847 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa06 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | Instead of their seals they impr[essed] their fingernails. |
| Obverse [1:5] o 22–o 55 | Fingernail of Sagab, fingernail of Šamšani-ilu, [fi]nger[nail of ...] from [...]ba |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | Witness Šu[...y]a. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | Witness Ippar[šid]u. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | Witness Nabû-uballiṭ, scribe, keeper of the tablet. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | Month Adar (XII), 19th day, eponym year of Sin-taklak, treasurer. |
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 | ku-um {na₄}KIŠIB-šu₂-nu ṣu-pur-šu₂-nu iš-[kun] | |
| 2 | ṣu-pur {1}⸢sa-gab ṣu-pur⸣ {1}šam-ša₂-a-⸢ni—DINGIR⸣ | |
| 3 | ⸢ṣu⸣-[pur x x x x x x]-ba-a.a | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢IGI⸣ {1}[x x x x]-MAŠ | |
| 2' | IGI {1}⸢šu⸣-[x x x]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 3' | IGI {1}par-[ši]-⸢du⸣ | |
| 4' | IGI {1}{d}PA—u₂-⸢bal⸣-liṭ | |
| 5' | {lu₂}A.BA ṣa-bit ṭup-pi | |
| 6' | {iti}ŠE UD 19-KAM₂ lim-mu | |
| 7' | {1}30—tak-lak {lu₂}IGI.UM | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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