Position in chronology
SAA 14 177. Remut-Nergal, Eunuch of the Manageress, Buys a Vacant Lot (ADD 0356)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) [Seal of Remutti-il], son of Hari-[..., owner of the] vacant [lot] being sol[d]. (seal impression) (4) A vacant [l]ot in Naṣibin[a] — (5) Remut-Nergal, eunuch of the harem manageress, has contracted and bought [for] 8 minas of copper from Remut-ili. (9) The money is paid completely. That vacant lot is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (13) (Whoever) in the future, at any time, whether Remutti-il, or his sons, [o]r his brothers, or [his] nephews (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mre-mut-ti—DINGIR] / DUMU mḫa-ri—⸢x⸣+[x x EN kaq-qi-ri] / pu-ṣe-e SUM-[ni] / [kaq]-qi-ri pu-ṣe-e ina URU.na-ṣib-⸢na⸣ / ú-piš-ma mrém?-ut?—dU.GUR / LÚ.SAG šá MÍ.šá-kín-te / [ina] ŠÀ 08 MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ / TA IGI mre-mut—DINGIR il-qí / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din / kaq-qir pu-ṣe-e šu-a-tum / za-ar-pu la-qí-ú / tu-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / ina ur-kiš ina im—ma-te-ma / lu-u mrém-ti—DINGIR lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú / [lu]-u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú lu-u DUMU-MEŠ—ŠEŠ-MEŠ-[šú]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335300.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335300). 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/P335300/.
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