Position in chronology
SAA 14 102. Hala-šuri Buys a House (*642-III-1) (ADD 0329)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Bir-atar, owner of the house being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (3) A built house with its beams, one of its doors, the upper story together with an exit, adjoining the house of Ah-abû, adjoining the house of Sunaya, [adjoi]ning the house of Hana-huru — (9) Hala-šuri has [co]ntracted and bought it [for x] shekels of silver. (11) [The money] is paid [compl]etely. [That house] is purchased and acquired. [Any revocation, la]wsuit, or [litigation is vo]id. (r 1) [In the future whoe]ver lodges a comp[laint], (r 2) shall give [......], and shall return [the money tenfold to] its…
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/P335273/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mbi-ir—a-tar / EN É SUM-an / É ep-šú a-di GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ-šú / 01 GIŠ.IG-ME-šú É AN.TA / mu-ṣu-ú is-sa-ḫi*-si / SUḪUR É mPAB-bu-ú / SUḪUR É msu-na-a.a / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ É mḫa-na*—ḫu-ru / [ú]-piš-ma mḫa-la—šu-ri / [ina ŠÀ-bi] ⸢x⸣ GÍN KUG.UD il-qi / [kas-pu gam]-mur ta-ad-din / [É šu-a-tú] za-rip laq-qi / [tu-a-ru] ⸢de⸣-nu / [DUG₄.DUG₄ la]-áš-šú / [ina ur-kiš man]-nu i-za-qu-⸢pa*⸣-[ni] / [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 P335273.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335273). 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/P335273/.
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