Position in chronology
SAA 14 096. Amurri Buys [...] (ADD 0476)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) [The mon]ey [is paid completely. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litiga]tion is void. (3) [Whoever in the future break]s [the contract, whether] Zerutu or his sons [o]r any relative of his, and seeks a [la]wsuit or litigation [against] Amurrî, (r 1) shall pay 10 minas of silver. The treaty of the king shall be his prosecutor. (r 3) Witness Šarru-lu-dari. (r 4) Witness Zabdî, chariot driver. (r 5) Witness Bir-ammâ, 'third man'. (r 6) Witness Mannu-lu-ahu'a. (r 7) Witness Adad-gabbê. (r 8) Witness Šarru-nuri, village manager. (r 9) Witness Il-šumki, chief [...]. (r 10) Witness Il-malak, [...]. (r 11) Witness Našuh-[...]. (r 12) Witness Tab[...]. (r 13) Month Tebet (X), [...th day, eponym year of NN]. (Break) (Aramaic caption): ...[...])
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x kas]-pu / [gam-mur ta-din tu-a-ru] / [de-e-nu DUG₄].DUG₄ la-áš-ši / [man-nu ša ina ur-kiš i-GIL]-u-ni / [lu-u m]NUMUN*-tú lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú / [lu]-u me-me-ni-šú / [TA] mIM.04-i / ⸢de⸣-ni DUG₄.DUG₄ / ub-ta-u-ni / 10 MA.NA KUG.UD i-dan / a-de-e ša MAN lu EN—de-ni-šú / IGI mMAN—lu—dà-ri / IGI mzab-di-i LÚv.mu-kil—PA-MEŠ / IGI mbir—am-ma-a LÚv.03-si / IGI mman-nu—lu-u—PAB-u-a / IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335415.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335415). 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/P335415/.
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