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Assyrian Deeds and Documents recording the transfer of property, including the so-called private contracts, legal decisions, and proclamations preserved in the Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum, chiefly of the Seventh Century b.c. Copied, collated, arranged, abstracted, annotated, and indexed by the Rev. C. H. W. Johns, M.A. Vol. I: Cuneiform Texts. (Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., 1898.)

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Assyrian Deeds and Documents recording the transfer of property, including the so-called private contracts, legal decisions, and proclamations preserved in the Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum, chiefly of the Seventh Century b.c. Copied, collated, arranged, abstracted, annotated, and indexed by the Rev. C. H. W. Johns, M.A. Vol. I: Cuneiform Texts. (Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., 1898.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1898

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page 895 note 1 The word in the original is urkiu, plural urkiuti. It means literally (when applied to a person) “lie who comes after,” hence the meaning here Suggested.

page 897 note 1 My copy has Našri.

page 897 note 2 Or Naśri-aali.

page 897 note 3 “Make me not ashamed, 0 God.”

page 897 note 4 This name means “Nebo, protect the rest.” The god seems to be called upon to protect those of the family who survived some illness or catastrophe.