Position in chronology
SAA 14 090. Se-haya Buys [...] (649?) (ADD 1162)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [..., ...l]î — (2) [Se-H]aya, [has contracted and] bought [... ...l]î [for ...]... of copper. (5) [The money] is paid [com]pletely. [Th]at [woman] is purchased and acquired. Any [rev]ocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (8) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Bullalu or his sons (or) his grandsons, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Se-Haya, (12) shall eat one mina of plucked wool, shall drink a full agannu vessel of the tanner's paste, shall place 2 minas of refined silver (and) one mina of pure gold in the lap of Ištar residing in Nineveh, [shall…
Source: 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/P335944/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x]-⸢li*⸣-i / [ú-piš-ma msu]-⸢ḫa⸣-a.a / [x x x x x x x]-⸢li*⸣-i / [ina ŠÀ-bi] ⸢x⸣ URUDU*-ME* il*-qi / [kas-pu] ⸢ga⸣-mur ta-din / [MÍ šú]-a-tú za*-⸢ár*⸣-pa-at la-qí-at / [tu]-a-ru de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / man-nu šá ina ur-kiš ina ma-ti-ma / lu mbu-la-lum* / lu DUMU-MEŠ-šú DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú / šá de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ TAv m⸢su*⸣-ḫa-a.a / ub-ta-u-ni 01 MA.NA ger-du ⸢KÚ*⸣ / mar DUG.a-ga-ni…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335944.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335944/..
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/P335944/.
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