Position in chronology
SAA 14 043. Kakkullanu Buys Land (*624-II-15) (ADD 0400)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Asalluhi-remanni, (2) seal of Hidatani, [ow]ner of the field being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (Break) (8) An estate [......] (9) o[f ......] (10) adjoini[ng] the village of Ṭab-[...] — (11) [Kakk]ullanu has contracted and bought it for 1/2 mina of silver. (13) The mone[y] is paid completely. That field is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (17) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint or breaks the contract, whether these men or their sons or their grandsons, and seeks a lawsuit against Kakkullanu, his sons and his grandsons,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mdASAR.LÚ.ḪI—rém-a-ni / NA₄.KIŠIB mḫi-da-ta-ni / ⸢EN⸣ A.ŠÀ SUM-ni / É [x x x x x x x x] / ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] / gab-⸢di URU⸣.ŠE—m⸢DÙG⸣.[GA-x x] / ú*-⸢piš⸣-ma m[ku]-⸢ku⸣-la-nu / ina ŠÀ-bi 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD / il-qi kas-⸢pu⸣ gam-mur / ta-ad-din A.ŠÀ šu-a-tú / za-rip la-TI tu-a-ru / de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / la-áš-šú man-nu / ša ina ur-kiš / ina ma-te-ma i-za-qu-pa-ni / i-GIL-u-ni lu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335343.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335343). source
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335343/.
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