Position in chronology
SAA 14 178. Nabu-nadin-ahhe, Eunuch of the Crown Prince, Redeems a House (ADD 0334)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Na]bû-nadin-ahhe, eunuch of the crown prince, has paid [......] to Hal-Suhu (and) to Sin-šarru-uṣur, and redeemed the house. (4) The money is paid completely. That house is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (8) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, whether Sin-šarru-uṣur or his sons or his grandsons or his brothers or his nephews, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Nabû-nadin-ahhe, (r 5) shall place 10 minas of refined silver (and) [x] minas of pure gold [in] the lap of Ištar…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[md]⸢PA⸣—SUM—PAB-MEŠ LÚv.SAG ša A—MAN / a-na mḫal—su-ḫu <$o$> / a-na m30—MAN—PAB it-ti-din / É ip-ta-ṭar kas-pu gam-mur ta-din / É šu-a-te za-ár-pi / laq-qi tú-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / man-nu ša ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma / i-GIL-u-ni i-za-qu-pa-an-ni / lu-u md30—MAN—PAB / lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú / lu-u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú lu-u DUMU—ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú / TAv mdPA—SUM—PAB-MEŠ / de-e-nu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335278.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335278). 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/P335278/.
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