Position in chronology
SAA 14 114. Ṣalmu-ahhe, Personal Guard, Buys an Estate (*634-II-5) (ADD 0373)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Pašî, son of Ibašši-ilani, from the city of Dayyanu-Adad, owner of the field being sold. (stamp seal impression) (5) An estate of one hectare and 2 decares of field adjoining the side road of ..., adjoining Šar-Issar, adjoining Ubru-ahhešu, adjoining a wadi — (9) Ṣalmu-ahhe, ša šēpi guard, has contracted and bought it for 10 shekels of silver. (r 1) The money is paid completely. That field is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (r 5) Whoever in the future or at any time, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, whether Pašî or his sons or his…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mpa-ši-i / DUMU mi-ba-áš-ši—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni / TAv ŠÀ URU.da-a.a-nu—dIM / EN A.ŠÀ ta-da-a-ni / É 01 ANŠE 2(bán) A.ŠÀ SUḪUR AMA šá ku-da-ri / SUḪUR mIM—d15 / SUḪUR mSUḪUŠ—PAB-MEŠ-šú / SUḪUR na-aḫ-li / ú-piš-ma mdNU—PAB-MEŠ / LÚ.šá—GÌR.2 / ina ŠÀ-bi 10 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / laq-qí* kas-pu gam-mur / ta-ti-din A.ŠÀ šu-a-te / za-rip laq-qí* tu-a-ru / de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-a-šú / man-nu šá ina ur-kiš…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335317.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335317). 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/P335317/.
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