Position in chronology
SAA 14 079. Nabu’a Buys Land (ADD 0406)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) (Nabû'a has contracted and) bought it from Ṣilli-Aššur-[al]lak. (2) The money is paid completely. That land is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (5) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, whether Ṣilli-Aššur-allak or his sons or his grandsons, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Nabû'a and his sons, (r 4) shall return the [mon]ey tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. (r 6) Witness Dugul-pan-ili. (r 7) [Witness Mannu-k]i-Arbail. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
TAv IGI mṣil—⸢aš-šur⸣—[DU]-⸢ak*⸣ / TI-qí kas-pu gam-mur ta-din / A.ŠÀ šú-a-tú za-rip la-qi / tú-a-ru de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina ur-kiš / ina ma-te-ma i-zaq-qup-an-ni / lu-u mṣil—aš-šur—DU o* / lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú / šá TAv mdPA-u-a u DUMU-MEŠ-šú / de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-u-ni / [kas]-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te a-na EN-MEŠ-šú / ⸢GUR⸣-ra ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄-ma la TI / IGI mdu-gul—IGI—DINGIR / [IGI mman-nu]—⸢ki⸣—URU.arba-ìl / [x x x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335349.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335349). 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/P335349/.
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