Position in chronology
SAA 14 047. Kakkullanu Buys a House in Nineveh (*617-II-10) (ADD 0327)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) a house, 4 doors [...] (2) one door in [...] (3) adjoining the house of Ṣil-Nabû, (4) adjoining the house of Ṭab-šar-Issar, (5) adjoining the house of Šamaš-le'i, (6) adjoining an alley, (7) a house in the best part of Nineveh — (8) Kukullayu has contracted and bought from Upaqa-ana-Arbail and from Šar-Issar for half mina of silver. (11) The money is paid completely. That house is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (15) (Aramaic caption:) Upaqa-ana-Arbail and Šar-Issar. (r 1) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
É GIŠ.04-IG ⸢a⸣ [x x x] / 01-et GIŠ.IG ina ŠÀ-bi ⸢x⸣+[x (x) x] / SUḪUR É mṣil—dPA / SUḪUR É mDÙG—IM—d15 / SUḪUR É mdUTU—ZU / SUḪUR su-qa-qi / É ina SAG URU.NINA.KI / ú-piš-ma mku-kul-a.a / TA IGI mpa-qa—a-na—arba-ìl TAv IGI mIM—15 / ina ŠÀ-bi 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD il-qi / kas-pu gam-mur ta-din É / šu-a-te za-rip laq-qi / tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / pqn)rb)l / sr)$ / man-nu šá ina ur-kiš ina…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335271.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335271). 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/P335271/.
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