Position in chronology
SAA 14 131. Purchase of a House (666-II-16) (ADD 0338)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) a house from [......] (2) including a store house in its entirety, (4) adjoining Nergal-ahu-..., adjoining a street ..., adjoining the orchard [...] — (7) [NN, (... of) the] govern[or of ...], has contracted and [(bought it)] (Break) (r 1) and seeks [(a lawsuit or litigation) against NN] or against his so[n]s, (r 3) [shall give] 10 [minas of silver] to Adad residing in [Harran, and shall return the mon]ey tenfold to [its owners]. He shall contest [in h]is [lawsuit and not succeed]. (Break) (e. 1) [Month Iy]yar (II), 16th day, [eponym year of Kanunayu], [go]vernor of the N[ew] Palace.
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/P418948/
Why it matters
Transliteration
⸢É⸣ TAv IGI m⸢x⸣+[x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / É.ub-sa*-a-ti qa*-⸢ni a-ḫe-iš⸣ / a-di ga-mir-⸢ti⸣-šú / SUḪUR mdU.GUR—PAB-x / SUḪUR su-qi x-ri?-x / gab-di GIŠ.SAR [x-x]+x / ú-piš-ma [m]⸢re?⸣-[x-x] / ⸢LÚv*⸣.EN*.⸢NAM*⸣ [x x x x] / lu [x x x x x x x x] / TAv* ⸢DUMU*⸣-MEŠ*-šú* [x x x x] / ub-[ta]-⸢u⸣-ni 10 [x x x x x] / ⸢a*-na* d⸣IM a-šib URU.[x x x x] / ⸢kas*-pu*⸣ a-na 10-MEŠ-te a-[na x x x x x] / [ina de-ni]-⸢šú*⸣ DUG₄.DUG₄-[ma x x x] / [ITI].⸢GUD⸣ UD ⸢16-KÁM⸣ [lim-mu mITI.AB-a.a] / ⸢EN⸣.NAM ša ⸢É—GIBIL*⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P418948.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P418948). 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/P418948/.
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